Okay, this is another short story, completely unrelated to the first. It's unfinished, because I'm not sure how to end it. I'm hoping you all can provide some ideas.
If you've already read it, here are some of my ideas for how to finish it off...
1. Seeget, Sakeda, and Timberlen take the baby back into the woods. They leave it near the place the children found it, Seeget casts a spell to hide their sight and scent, they wait for the mother to show up and reclaim her child.
2. They give the goblin back to the tribe, but the goblins kill the child because it has been contaminated by the touch of humans.
3. Timberlen tries to raise the goblin child herself, but Bertram kills it.
4. Seeget tells Timberlen she will take care of the goblin child, but Timberlen observes her killing it.
5. Fire from heaven consumes all the people in the story. And the author.
I’m not in love with any of these ideas, and in the years since I first started toying with this story I haven’t come up with an ending that I really like. So please let me know if you get any good ideas.
Thanks!
JD