The story’s complexity had baffled Devon as a child, but she understood it well enough now. The truth was, Nycteris never really escaped. Oh, she got a prince and a castle and the cruel witch died at the end. But Nycteris could not ever leave the cave, because the cave was a place in her mind; it was the entire way she thought about reality. Princesses like that couldn’t be rescued. Devon’s last thought before falling asleep on the bus was to wonder if actually, she’d had it the wrong way around. Maybe everyone was living in a cave, and Nycteris was the only person smart enough to recognize
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