“I see you, all the creatures that men call monsters.
Monstrous creatures? Monstrous?… Who are they, really? They are those who cannot be saved, who are of a form unsuited to this world. But what if, for once, they were the heroes—clumsy, reckless, involuntary saviors of themselves?”
N. Haynes

A dress-story that tells a myth.
A great skirt that contains within itself all the elements of this tale. A mountain of red fabric in which a narrator recounts the story of a witch and her basilisk.

Humankind has always needed to create and to fight monsters that embody evil and the flaws of the world, and this performance begins with the act of creation—the magical rite that gives birth to a basilisk.

But now we must face the King of Serpents, a creature unsuited to life among men, with supernatural powers, sowing terror, and with a single gaze turning living beings into stone. Through the centuries, countless legends have cast him as a terrible and deadly figure. Drawing on some of these, our story begins with the arrival of the Basilisk in a peaceful village. His power breeds fear and dismay; the villagers, not knowing how to banish him and powerless against his magic, lock themselves in their homes in fear.

But is this creature truly a monster, or is it simply unable to change its nature?
Perhaps, unaware of how to handle its power, it is imprisoned by it.
Only through the encounter and clash with a small, unsuspecting hero—through his reckless courage and his gentleness—will the Basilisk be offered a way out: in this case, a magical antidote, a trick to ensure that no one dies—neither the monster nor the village.

Through knowledge, courage, encounter, and even a touch of magic, we find a new solution to an old legend.