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I was at the Button Factory for a Matariki (Mauri/Maori New Year) celebration that included a documentary called 'The Eternal Spring', a shared meal and a sound journey. It was during the sound journey that I had a vision of a scene within this short story playing itself on stage in a theatrical rendition. Karen Hunter's singing during her sound journey granted me a vision of two characters in this tale dancing beneath what would be a stage light that represented moonlight. It was a beautiful dance of deeply sacred masculinity, and sacred femininity in action that showed a boy how to honour both aspects within himself. 

This vision restored in me the clarity of the theatrical representation of this short story and the timing of bringing it into production. So, I will endeavour to ask creatives, musicians, producers, directors, sound engineers, theatrical production teams and companies, actors to contact me about firstly reading the short story (which I will give to them for free) and then creating around me a team of people who share the vision of bringing this story to life. Eventually, I will look to make this short story into a recording, animated movie and eventually part of a content series of Pablo Wairua short stories for streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon.