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My hopes and dreams, so tattered and tender, had been sheltered by secrecy for so long that I could not bear to bring them to light.
Liesil's outlook on her dreams and thoughts in chapter one 😭😕
His voice was neither deep nor high, but there was a quality to it that spoke of dark woods and dry winter nights.
The tall stranger (the goblin king) gives Leisel a flute at the market. 🪈
It was make-believe, true, but even make-believe was a sort of belief.
Leisil believes in the Goblin King but doesnt want to fully except it yet 🧝🏻♂️
To confront him was to make him real, and I wanted to keep him my beautiful, indulgent secret.
Leisil sees the Goblin King at the audition. She finally realizes who he is but wants to keep him a secret.
Back when I was still myself, whole and entire, before time and responsibility had whittled me to a sliver of myself.
Liesil talks about when she was a young girl, how she would run off to play with the Goblin King in the Goblin Grove. They would dance to the music in her head. She is also telling the Goblin King right now that she remembers him. She didnt forget there games
After all, I was not a child of beauty; I was a child of the queer, the strange, and the wild.
Liesil think she isnt pretty. She is just the girl that helped her brother for his career. This is the fake world without Kathe. When she came back after her first meet in the woods with the Goblin King. Game just started
“What’s the use of running, if we are on the wrong road?”
Liesil is fighting with fake Hans in the lie world. Josef just left for his trip with master Antonio and Hans takes her to kiss her and says he wants a safe, clean woman.
I was Underground.
Liesl waking up in the underworld.
I had won this round.
She lost rhe first one. She won this one. She needs to win the kast to save her sister
