The other one sounds good too, although my cynical side is slightly jaded over the idea of another Chosen-Character-On-A-Quest idea. Still, I love the name Ocilla.

Thanks for the recommendations!

Book recommendation: Have you read Alessandro Manzotti’s The Betrothed? It’s an historical novel about 17th century Italy. One of its subplots is the story of a young woman who suffers acutely because she is forced by her parents to enter a convent. To me it is another Rapunzel, but most unhappy. It is deeply affecting.

Recently I watched a film about Hildegaard of Bingen’s life. In it there was a young woman given to the convent as a tithe to the Church. Wow. For some women in this situation, this may have meant greater freedom; but for many, this may have meant terrible unhappiness.