At roughly the same time Henrietta enrolled at Harvard, there was another woman named Helen Keller. At the age of one and a half, she lost both her sight and hearing after contracting scarlet fever.
A person who lost their sight could still compensate with hearing. Henrietta had lost her hearing, so her vision became sharper. To lose both sight and hearing at such a young age meant that even if Helen Keller was not mute, she could not speak like an ordinary person.
Children like wolf children or bear children had all their senses intact, yet because they lacked training, they could not communicate like normal people. Fortunately, Helen Keller received patient instruction from a teacher. Not only could she communicate through sign language, she also learned to read, recognized many words, and came to understand love.
She had once said that her childhood seemed to be shrouded in a golden mist. Whenever she tried to excavate memories from her early years, she often found herself unable to distinguish fact from imagination. After so many years, when people sketched out their childhoods, they inevitably added flights of fancy.
This might have described the sensations Pomona had recently developed. She had originally been like a blind person, relying on hearing and touch to sense what plants needed. Now, she had regained some "sense of light." She could see certain things, yet they remained indistinct, as if obscured by golden mist.
She did not actually like this feeling, because her former sensitivity to "hearing" had weakened as well.
South of Hogsmeade Valley stood a waterfall. After the waters of the Piyu River flowed through this place, they entered a marsh. Every midsummer, a kind of pink aquatic grass grew along the riverbed, dancing gracefully in the rushing current like dancers.
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