Hansel/Gretel: Pine Barrens Knowing

Retelling of the iconic-tale of brother-and-sister finding the wits to escape darkness in an Earth forest (for the Tree of Life).

Interrupting my fun Voltron cartoon 3-part fanfiction with another (short) piece. Iconic fairy-tale retelling for your December-Xmas season Manic Monday (thanks for reading!), 

DISCLAIMER: This work of fiction offers no commercial/explicit ties to any person(s)/body and all images/references used herein comprise a purely 'personal' expression for social art (for 'open' views/translations).

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Precocious walking-man of forest curiosity, Hansel, took his loving sister (Gretel) by the hand and wanted his woods-wandering quite intelligent and (therefore) decided to leave a trail of bread-crumbs as they walked along their declared path to know how to walk back out of the dense Pine Barrens forest of the American Homeland but was horrified to discover a raven/bird had scooped up the bread-crumb clues to walkway direction/turns behind them. Hansel turned to his sister and informed her to his humbling shock that they were now (officially) lost and direction-less. Gretel had calmly decided to advise her distraught bro that they ought to just keep walking to pray for some way-out or light. The brother-and-sister pair of faithful humans now sought their Pine-Barrens forest walk to (simply) be...know.

HANSEL: Look at this unusual wall-design house-like structure, sister.

GRETEL: It's got-sign that there's some designer or 'being' who calls it a haven!

HANSEL: Well, it's the first-place of 'know' we find with lost-wandering now.

GRETEL: We might sit here to see how this glorious light shines through the wall!

HANSEL: That's rich, sister...for a Pine-Barrens know of good (or shadows too!).

It was shadows they found, they did! Hansel and sister Gretel were idling somewhat to enjoy the sunlight coming through the window-oriented wall-openings of some manmade house-relic like structure they found in those Pine-Barrens when the 'owner' (an eerie woods-dwelling dark witch in blindfold and a crown of twigs/leaves) arrived and tied them up, forcing them to listen to her sing, about things of leviathan/uncertainty for the Ego (damn).

HANSEL: See if you can trick this witch with your wits, sister, before she eats me.

GRETEL: Brother, I do mean to think she's marked you as inattentive of her sing.

HANSEL: You've got the wits to match her evil here, sister...discover a magic (ok).

GRETEL: I know it, brother...I'll challenge her to untie me to dance around her.

HANSEL: If she agrees, sister?

GRETEL: I'll trip her and then put that large rock on her back and sit on it!

HANSEL: Ok, that'll give me the time/energy to untie myself with my pocket-knife.

GRETEL: Good-luck, brother.

WAITRESS: Here's your culinary-treat soft/zesty (Indian) luchi-diner plate, you!

HANSEL/GRETEL: Thanx, lady-waitress...much laughter.

WAITRESS: You look weary, in this Jersey-area of Earth, you.

HANSEL/GRETEL: We just escaped from the Pine-Barrens witch, lady (wow).

WAITRESS: You must've wandered walking while your parents were away, eh?

HANSEL/GRETEL: They left us some pocket-money we use to buy this luchi (ok).

WAITRESS: All's well that ends in a diner-touchdown, no?

HANSEL/GRETEL: Earth's leaves (for us).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)