Tall & Strong

There once was a young lady who was always feeble and frail; super sensitive to every little hush of wind or drop of rain; constantly fainting because it was all too much on every level, or so she thought.

One day, she had taken a journey on a coach to visit her long suffering physician. On the coach were also a number of young orphaned children who were to be delivered to a nunnery in the big town where the young lady was headed. Halfway on the journey, the coachman had a heart attack and died, leaving his hapless occupants all alone in the middle of a scary forest.

No-one was around to come to their rescue; and the young woman was about to go into her usual fainting fit when she found herself surrounded by the orphans, who were no higher than her waist; one tugged on her skirts and asked, "Are we all going to die now?"

And that day, the following night and the next day, the young woman learned a lot about herself, about her strength and her capacity to not just save herself, but others, too.