Page 45 - Adventures in shadow-land

What Aster was. 4i

pointing to the round full moon above their heads.
“ I wish I was there again.”

** Why don’t you go back, then?"

“ I can’t, unless you help me. T hey who sent
me here say so*”
“ Why did they send you here?”

“ Because up there,” pointing to the moon,

<{ I lost my flower, and everything which is lost
there falls Into Shadow-Land, as everything which
is lost in Fairy-Land falls into the Enchanted

River; and so they sent me here to find it again,
because a prince cannot live there without his

flower; and I cannot find it unless you help me.
Now you know who I am, Eva,— the moon-

prince, Aster.”
“ Then must I say Prince Aster?”

u N o; to you I am only Aster. And I know
that it will be hard for you to find the flower, for

I cannot help you, or tell you what it is like. I
know that the Green Frog has hidden it, and you

are the only person who can help me to find it,
and then you must give it to me. T hey say we

shall have trouble.”
“ But we will find it at last?”