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I decided to look into powerful women, and started to read ‘Women who run with the wolves’. It describes how in every woman there is a wild woman, and really helped me with my character. One caption from a short story within the book really stood out to me.

“She put her lips to the golden skin of the pear and ate while standing there in the moonlight, her arms bound in gauze, her hair afright, appearing like a mud woman, the handless maiden. The gardener saw it all, but recognized the magic of the spirit who guarded the maiden, and did not interfere. After the girl finished eating the single pear, she withdrew across the moat and slept in the shelter of the wood”. (Estés, C. P. 1992:392)