Turned into Stone

Toja, the thin girl with the long, silky hair and light footsteps, was minding her goats near the old oak trees on the banks of the river Zgosca, at the place where the river split in two. She was enjoying the feel of the cold water on her bare feet, and was singing a melancholic tune, from her ancestors of long ago. Suddenly she was startled to hear a noise behind her...