Two new posts from Averill, one of the Other People. The first is a lovely post on the Darren (similar to Averill’s earlier post on the Liathane), and the second is a new story for the meeting of the Clarene and Ophelia. Please give them both a read!

Though restrained and slow in that earlier form as the man of embers and stone, here the phantom stag of the Darren was quick-footed and light, radiating strange power. Here he seemed undeniably ethereal, undeniably fae. There was no mistaking the meaning and origin of this creature in the woods.

Time + Place #2: the Spectre of the Forest

The box was small and intricate, covered in expensive silks and embroidered with the finest gold thread, with powerful magic coursing through the gilded decorations on its surface. Upon its lid was a hole in the shape of a heart, that when the girl’s heart was pressed within it, the bright threads and rich cloths would knit around it and bind it tight, sealing the princess within.

Fairy Tales: The Wishing Well