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Should An Angel Reject A Child?
Do they get to decide who goes to heaven and when?
The idea for this came as fast as lightning.
Background: my boyfriend is usually very dismissive of Malczewski's art, for funny reasons which don’t need to be said here. But as the contrarian that I am, sometimes I will just spend a time looking at his paintings and letting my boyfriend catch glimpses of what I’m doing on my phone, and roll his eyes.
But today I stumbled upon this one, and an idea came to me.
How young is too young to decide that you’ve got enough of this place?
Geese sounded the alarm before I heard tiny, unsteady feet walking behind me. I wanted to pretend that nothing was amiss, but there was a child following me into the fields, and no adult in sight.
It surprised me that the child could see me, because angels are not visible to everyone — sometimes we are not visible at all. But every now and again, someone will be bestowed with the chance of catching a glimpse of a creature like me, and then problems will begin.
“You just need to go back to the stables and pretend nothing happened. You just need to go back to the stables and pretend nothing happened. You just need to-”
