A Greek Beauty

A Greek Beauty
A Lily Pond
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
American Day Dream
Slowly—reticent actually to witness the damage, since seeing things made themreal, and seeing her own broken body was not a reality she wanted toacknowledge—slowly, she opened her eyes. Things were blurry here at ground level.Hazy browns and grays in the foreground, becoming progressively brighter andgreener in the distance. Slowly, things came into focus. Slowly, she saw the Ewok. A strange, small, furry creature, he stood three feet from Leia's face and no morethan three feet tall. He had large, dark, curious, brownish eyes, and stubby littlefinger-paws. Completely covered, head to foot, with soft, brown fur, he looked likenothing so much as the stuffed baby Wookiee doll Leia remembered playing with as achild. In face, when he first saw the creature standing before her, she thought itmerely a dream, a childhood memory rising out of her addled brain. But this wasn't a dream. It was an Ewok. And his name was Wicket.