Rapunzel Reborn by R.S. Kellogg

Author:R.S. Kellogg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebecca Kellogg International

This story originally appeared in Goddess in the Details: Everyday Goddess Stories, Volume 4, by R.S. Kellogg. Find the complete collection at online retailers.

Rapunzel and the Relatives

by R.S. Kellogg

A sharply rising cliff on the edge of the valley shaded a three-story imposing home set not far from the valley’s edge. Trees spilled over the steep face of the hills with the tenacity of tall tendrils of hair which had sprung up against the pale flesh of some giant’s outflung arm.

Rapunzel could feel her own heart beating wildly as she clung to her mother’s back as they headed for the house.

The sound of the wind held her attention. With enough expression to its tone to sound like a chorus moaning, the wind almost seemed to hold words. Something solemn and warning. It toyed with her cloak and teased a few loose short strands of hair before her eyes.

Her thighs were aching from bridging across the horse, and her arms felt rigid where she had been clutching at her mother for a few hours.

The sights and sounds of the journey this far had nearly overwhelmed her—but not quite.

She had kept her wits about her in part by pretending that she and her mother and her Aunt Carina weren’t actually outside her tower walls at all. Within her mind, she was imagining that they had merely stepped inside the pages of one of the many books which adorned her small private library.

This had explained the cheerful village which they had ridden past, the height of the horse, the incredible sound of the wind, the great forest with its shadows and depths and impossibly tall trees—taller even than her tower.

And now that they were turning toward this house—a singular house, one with great purple gables and red brick walls, and a garden of cultivated trees and adorable rose bushes with a cobblestone path that wound its way through a gate, through the delightful garden, and all the way up to the imposing front door—Rapunzel amused herself by imagining that this was just about the point of her storybook where the plot would really get interesting.

She studied the look of the house. Why this looked just as if it were something from the sketches of one of the fairy tales she so enjoyed reading.

Grinning to herself, Rapunzel wondered what waited inside.

Could there be new opportunities waiting for her just beyond the walls of this big house? She rather felt there were.

Perhaps she might even meet a hero. Or a monster.

Maybe even a dragon, if she were really lucky.

And so when her Aunt Carina helped her get down from the great heights of the horse, and Rapunzel stumbled a bit on her landing, she didn’t let herself get overwhelmed or dismayed by just how tall and big the house looked, or how her aunt looked at her with an expectant and faintly arch air that left Rapunzel wondering what exactly her aunt was expecting from her (and whether she herself would be able to make good on whatever these expectations were).

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