How Does Lucy cope with this heinous betrayal by her family?
heinous
1. (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked
synonyms: odious, wicked, evil, atrocious, monstrous, disgraceful, abominable, detestable, contemptible, reprehensible, despicable, horrible, horrific, horrifying, terrible, awful abhorrent, loathsome, outrageous, shocking, shameful, hateful, hideous, unspeakable, unpardonable, unforgivable, inexcusable, ghastly, iniquitous, villainous, nefarious, beneath contempt, beyond the pale;
First she calls her friend Deb who makes her a ham sandwich. Then she saw her mother for who she really is, an ugly old witch who makes other people's lives a misery so they will know what it feels like to feel as bad as she does. Unfortunately, behaving this way is never going to make the witch feel good because she feels guilty for doing it, it is a self-perpetuating cycle. By perceiving this, Lucy freed herself from her mother's destruction. That's what Lucy focused on. She didn't focus on the fact that the witch had shared Christmas lunch with her mortal enemy, Pignig, she focused on the emotion the event had caused - luckily that feeling was FREEDOM!
Lucy felt amazed. She felt so free.
She got up very early in the morning on New Year's Eve and caught the train to Sydney to watch the fireworks with someone in her cat family and her friend's friends.
From her view point the fireworks exploded behind a tree, she saw it light up like the Tree Of Life. And then they caught the train all the way home again.
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| The Tree of Life, Lucy & the Witch. I have distorted the witches head so as not to disturb the minds of younger readers. |
She curled up in bed under her sheet, seeing as it doesn't look like the security blanket is ever going to return, and went to sleep.
When she woke up the next day, she felt sad. She could see that it is a sad thing when it turns out that your mother is a witch who doesn't love you and that she would never see the family that had betrayed her again. So she just let herself be sad. But she didn't let it upset her. Instead she went out and bought Puss a beautiful new necklace. Her friend Irene (who isn't actually a cat) had a special cat bell put away in a secret draw in her shop. When Puss put it on she felt happy, every time her new cat-bell rang, she was reminded of all her true friends.
Lucy wasn't ungrateful to the witch, she had brought her up, giving her the opportunity to learn ballet, and they had lived in the best ancient house in the world. It didn't matter to Lucy that she had always dressed her in rags and given her gristle to eat. She had made Lucy grow into a beautiful kind-hearted girl who tried with all her might to become someone her mother wouldn't blame. What did matter to Lucy was that her mother laughed at her efforts, though she found out that her mother laughed at her because of her own insecurity because the witch couldn't do as well, Lucy forgave her for that.
Lucy was so brave now, she wasn't afraid of feeling sad so she looked deeply into the emotion. And do you know what happened? It went away, I guess sadness doesn't like being stared at.
End of Part VI
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