liraniel
I have been tempted by many things in my life, but never have I been tempted more than by the first glimpse of that tall gumtree in my grandmother’s backyard. She told me about the fairies that lived at the top, and the gold they hid in the trunk.
She probably began to regret telling me all this after I fell from a staggering height and, luckily, broke only the arm I fell on. She certainly would have disavowed all knowledge of telling me, and punished me for telling tales to boot, if she had known my intention to continue attempting to climb that tree until I got to that gold.