Crossword-Solution: FIRS 4 letters, 153 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Gretel in Darkness: This is the world we wanted. All who would have seen us deadare dead. I hear the witch's crybreak in the moonlight through a sheetof sugar: God rewards. Her tongue shrivels into gas.... Now, far from women's arms And memory of women, in our father's hutwe sleep, are never hungry. Why do I not forget? My father bars the door, bars harmfrom this house, and it is years. No one remembers. Even you, my brother, summer afternoons you look at me as thoughyou mean…

It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.

It was not the first time - it was far from the firs time - that Damask had suspected that there was something queer, something quite out of the ordinary about her mind. Most people had minds which dealt with one thought, and then another, one at a time. Hers very often dealt with two, even three, all at the same time." Damask Greenway from Afternoon of an Autocrat