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I had misinterpreted Ariel in the worst way ized that I was flying... On my back beneath
possible - the cruelty was not his but my the sky again, only free.
own! He had felt compassion and - purple
_ for that mor g and I had refused to "I himself compassion,"
the music of children in his
eyes were bright with

t it was a thought-birth ; my eyes were bright like

out reflexively - the music human than any of them,"
Colors spilled around

orange and yellow and green
and every magic shade

in between. The danced like memo-

ries or forgotten around my mind. I

think Ilost control; and my bonds dis-

appeared.
For a fraction of an instant, Iwas suspended

like a miracle between the sky and the sea -
Then Isplashed lau ingb' into the beyond-

sea, It was diffete ~lfiUing in a way d
to the point of
had never known; I no longer longed d the elements
we had been transfigured
, only faintly as I remem-
. But the new-

that made we soared to the place
beginning-place. between the stars where the song of home-
~ Ariel was with
had freed me sickness sang ...
Ariel held my mind and brilliance came easy

_ we mounted over the wor1d like the wind:

and everything was rainbow, rainbow, rain-

\ bow!
And Ariel sang me my name.