room, casting delicate shadows across the walls. Each shadow made different shapes—soaring birds, majestic mountains, floating fish, graceful beasts. “Jolie was afraid of the dark when she was little,” he explained. “So we added these.” “We wanted her to see that the shadows that scared her could be beautiful and powerful when we learn how to take control of them,” Edaline added. Taking control. It sounded so simple. And so impossible.

