That night the book, like the paintings, became a key to the magic world. Hunched up in bed with a candle, Mary read about goddesses who could summon storms and kill sailors who displeased them; heroes who would travel the world for ten years, battling gods and monsters to return to the woman they loved; mortals who married gods; humans transformed into a tree, a stag, a spider.
For thousands of years, it seemed, humans had been transformed. You didn't have to end where you started. Mary thought of Lizzie Siddal and the girl in Felix's drawing, and wondered who she could become.
Following Ophelia, P160-161
Sophia Bennett
ISBN 978-1-84715-810-9
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