![]() ![]() If she doesn’t, she will die and become his own bride. What is more, if she finds her true love during that day, he will let her live. Intrigued-or perhaps playing along-Death agrees to let Keturah live another day. In the middle of the story, Keturah stops and refuses to finish until the next night. The reader recognizes it as her own story, the story of an orphaned girl who longed to find love but was interrupted in her quest by Death. To stall Lord Death, Keturah begins to tell a story. Death tells her that she has been foolish, as most of her neighbors will die soon in any case, of the plague. Death tells her that she thinks too highly of love, which is just a “story,” spun out of “dust and dreams.” Nevertheless, he agrees to let her live, if she is willing to pick another person from her village to die in her stead. She is too young to die, and she has never known love. ![]() ![]() He is Lord Death, and he has come for Keturah. On the third day, she encounters “a goodly man, severe but beautiful,” riding a black horse. ![]()
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