![]() ![]() Death agrees, and even agrees to allow to live past the next night if only she can find her one true love. ![]() She begins to tell Death a story, but like Scheherazade, she does not finish her story instead promising to tell the ending the next night if he will allow her to live that long. She must find a way to warn the village and stop the plague, but first she must get death to agree to spare her. ![]() She is even more horrified to discover that the plague will arrive in her village, ensuring the deaths of many. Although he points out several people who are old or sad or tired of life, Keturah is horrified and refuses the offer. He will not take Keturah’s life if she will just name one person to take her place. She tells Death she is not ready to die Death’s reply is that no one is, but then he makes an offer. Getting hopelessly lost, she finally settles beneath a tree and waits for Death to come. She sees a beautiful deer and follows it into the forest. Keturah lives in a small village on the outskirts of the kingdom. ![]()
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