Fairy tales of Eastway
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Falconer looks into Fairy Tales of Eastway mentioning that Baltasar said there was one he thought connected to the dissapearance of children
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There's a lot of fairy tales involving hags, missing children, and more. The librarian inquires if there is something more specific to go on.
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[Baltasar offers Falconer an excerpt of a report, the next time he shows up.]
I dreamt of many things, the first of which was an old Eastway fairy tale, of a woman lost in the Hullack and approached by a Hag, whom offered safe return of the woman back to her home if only she would give her 'four stars'. The woman gladly accepted this offer and was shown a path out of the forest. As the woman went home she tucked her four children into bed, kissing their brows before going to sleep herself. The Hag returned that night and took the children, none of them woke and neither did the woman. These were the four stars.
As the woman awoke the next morning, so overcome with grief was she that she plunged a dagger into her breast in an attempt to kill herself, only for the Hag to save her, telling her that she will live forever with children, a mother of the children if you will. She accepted, maddened by grief, and the tale tells that she lacks her children to this day, looking over other children taken in the past, present and future, eternally, weeping ceaselessly for her four stars were never returned.