It seems to me that the true witchery of beguilement is not the deception itself… but in the creation and carriage of the desire to have been so…
Beguile: charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way.
Enchanted
Of Wardrobes and Gratitude
I hid in the wardrobe and listened to their worried voices calling my name.
“Heather? Heather! Where are you?! Where IS she?”
I’d never climbed in there before. This was a one-off. I remember drawing my knees up under my chin, feeling the clothes against my face and drawing the solid sliding door closed to within an inch or so – the most shut I could make it while curling my 10 year old fingers around the edge from the inside.
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