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A Feast of Unlikely Stories

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seen him for a while now, but let me tell you he is<br />

so graceful and so beautiful.’ She explained that she<br />

had had a recurring dream before Eila was born.<br />

The Moonlight Lion had danced through her dreams<br />

more times than she could remember. They agreed<br />

it was very odd, but there was nothing sinister about<br />

it; if anything it had a certain romance to it. Eila and<br />

her Mother were both so full <strong>of</strong> love and happiness<br />

that they just let it be.<br />

A few more years passed and it was Eila’s turn to<br />

become pregnant. When her child did arrive he was<br />

such a handsome baby. The midwife remarked that<br />

his little grip was much stronger than most babies’<br />

and how unusual it was to be born with such a full<br />

head <strong>of</strong> strawberry blond hair, like the mane <strong>of</strong> a<br />

little lion, she said. Eila, her husband and her mother<br />

looked at each other with a knowing smile and then<br />

back at the baby with his bright locks and twinkling<br />

grey eyes. ‘I think we will call him Leo’ said Eila.<br />

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