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Riddle from Green Eyed Man (Perhaps Jupiter - Secrets)
Once there was a maiden...
... who ate 236 leaves. She had to, because otherwise
she'd forget where she came from, and that would make
everyone very sad or, possibly, very happy.
She found herself in a woods full of monsters,
impelled towards their cook pot. "Do you want to cook me?"
she asked. "Or do you just think that's where maidens belong?"
There was a crack in the cook pot's bottom that let in the sky.
She started to squirm through the crack, but then,
she saw that the clouds carried chains and the wind was
their manacles.
As the monsters pulled her back, she called to the
stones and she called to the sky, but it was the night that
came to her aid; and, in the night, fire and pain.
"Why should you help me?" she asked.
"To know the world is to serve it," they said.
Riddle from woman with Golden Dragon on Dress (Perhaps Mercury - Journeys)
Once, there was a maiden...
... whose shadow fled from her. She chased it over
fire and stone.
She chased her shadow to a monster's mouth.
Her shadow went right in. It didn't know how to stop.
The maiden caught her shadow in a deep cave full
of ghosts. Her shadow turned into a ball of thorns that
wrapped around her. When the ghosts pricked their
fingers on the thorns, they came to life. This didn't make
anyone very happy.
The maiden made a ladder from the ghosts bones,
but it only pointed downward. "Why go on?" her
shadow asked.
"I can't quit now," said she.
Riddle found in book (perhaps Venus - Serenity)
Once, there was an old thing...
... that wasn't a shadow because you could see it too well.
... and that wasn't like a light, because it didn't make flowers grow.
So, it had to be a maiden, but she didn't mind.
"To know the world is to love it," said she.
Riddle from Zoko's Dream
"I'm holding at bay," she said.
"What I know to be true
That I'll never get out.
I won't let my dreams die!
I'll hang on to hope," She said.
"Until time itself ends. But -"
"There's always an ending." said Time
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