A woman finds a broom. A magic broom. Gradually, she learns to use it.

She's a teacher, and one day, lecturing to a huge class, she says "Honesty is the most important thing." They shout her down, sneering and hooting, calling her "Honesty the Witch," parodying Christian names like Charity.

Goaded by their taunts, she leaps on her broom and flies round the auditorium! One of the hostile students grabs the bristles as she heads for the window. I leap and hang on too as she sails out the window. And up. Miles up! We all struggle. He's trying to rape Honesty, because if he can, her broom will fall, and we'll all die.

And he wants this. For all of us to die. He'll go that far to bring Honesty down.

I'm trying to think of a way to escape--pushing him off, or pulling her off with me and leaving him stranded, unable to run the broom--somehow, if Honesty fucks ME in midair, I think we would land gently, unharmed, broom or no broom. Because magic's in the person, not the tool.

And it must have worked, because...

Suddenly the two of us, Honesty and me, are curled up quietly on a padded bench below a sunny window, in the city library, in Penticton, British Columbia. I'm reading over her shoulder, as she skims through a huge set of children's books about winged people.

Feels like a prophecy: we'll be winged too, eventually.

NOTE YEARS LATER

My godmother Joan-Lee triggered this dream by telling me what she considered absolutes in life. First on her list was honesty. I was a little scientist at the time and thought coldly and privately that her merely human values were trivial; absolutes to me were time, space, gravity, mass-energy.

But then, my disdain for human affairs was largely because when I was honest in school, I got mocked--or beat up. Honesty the Witch was me.

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