The Girl Who Asked Different Questions
Ha Ria lived in a special school where children learned to catch starlight in glass bottles and paint pictures with liquid moonbeams. It was the most wonderful school in seven kingdoms, and every child felt lucky to be there.
Every child except Ha Ria.
While the other children practiced making perfect rainbow circles, Ha Ria drew wild spirals that seemed to wiggle on the page. While they memorized the names of every star, she wondered why the stars chose those names for themselves.
"Ha Ria," her teacher would sigh, "you must learn to follow the rules if you want your magic to be proper and neat."
But Ha Ria's magic didn't want to be neat. It wanted to dance.
Every night, she would press her face against her bedroom window and feel a strange tugging in her chest, as if invisible threads connected her heart to something vast and mysterious beyond the school walls.
"What are you trying to tell me?" she would whisper to the wind.
The wind never answered… unt…
