She Saw Moonlight, Steam, and Glass Eyes

From her halting explorations as she crawls beneath the moonlight, to her mother gently soothing her to sleep, to waking in a daze, drawn to a strange, rich fragrance, and finally tearing through time and space with one desperate grasp. Her growth is more than just physical and intellectual development. It is also about learning to bring her gift and curse from a past life, her heightened awareness, sensitivity, and empathy, together with her fragile body and unfamiliar new surroundings. She must learn to master these traits rather than be crushed by them, allowing those “branches reaching upward” to take root in modern soil and grow into something new and stronger.