She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.