She would listen to women talking by the fire or working in the village or gathering berries but if they invited her to join them she ran away. ![]() ![]() She would grab children who wandered too far alone in the woods but she would return them to the same spot after three days and run away again. She would grab men who were fishing alone and make love to them and then throw them down on the ground and run away weeping. She was never satisfied or content and so she ran and ran and ran. When the wind changed direction suddenly that was Asin. When you saw dunegrass rippling in a line she was running through it. She had wild long hair and she was very tall and she ran like the wind. If you saw her running you had to run to water as fast as you could and drink or her restlessness would come into you like a thirst that could never be quenched. Asin couldn't bear being married or having children or having friends. “Did I ever tell you about Asin? She is the wild woman of the woods.
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