Oz Qartulad — The Wizard Of

She wrapped the felt cloak around her shoulders, kissed each friend goodbye, and whispered, "ნახვამდის, ოზი" (Goodbye, Ozi).

When they reached the , the Wizard was not a man, but an ancient, crumbling ნუცა (icon) of Saint George — hollow inside. A hidden projector played a recording of a old მესტვირე (troubadour) singing polyphonic songs. The Wizard Of Oz Qartulad

They soon met their first foe: the . She was a bony woman with hair of black wool and fingernails like ხაჭაპური crusts. She threw a thunderbolt that turned the road into მჭადი (cornbread mush). The Tin Soldier clanked forward, blocking the blow with his chest. "I felt that," he whispered, surprised. She wrapped the felt cloak around her shoulders,

ბოლო (The End)

But the Lion nudged her. "Ozi is inside you, Tako. So is Tbilisi." They soon met their first foe: the

One afternoon, a sudden თოვლიანი ქარი (snowy wind) roared down from Mount Kazbek. The air turned to white crystal. Tako, who had been fetching water from the spring, grabbed her family’s old felt cloak. But the wind was stronger than any დევი (demon) from her grandmother’s stories. It scooped her up, spun her past the frozen waterfalls, and dropped her— thump —into a valley where the grass was the deep green of a Georgian summer and the sky was the blue of ancient cloisonné enamel.