Dec 20, 2024
Spark has been wandering all her life. But her wandering had no purpose, until she began searching for a home.
Genre: Mythology, Fable, Fantasy
Excerpt:
Spark had been traveling all her life. She’d never once landed in
one place. But now she had. Now, she could be still. And she’d
found this one place, this one twirling
world.
Exploring was exciting. But Spark was not quite exploring. She was searching for something. A place. One place. To settle.
A home of her own.
What story or stories am I
revisiting in this episode?
Each Season 8
episode is a standalone story, but it’s connected to or inspired by
a previous story through a character, a place, an object, a
concept, a continuation of events (ahem, sequel), and so
on.
The inspiration for this story is the Season 5 episode, “The Flight of Flea.” The story is about a bird that grew so small that no one could see him. Everyone called him “Flea.” But he knew that he had another name, a name he’d forgotten. If he could find out what his true name was, Flea believed he could grow big enough to be seen.
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CREDITS
Story: “Castle,
Cave, or Cloud” Copyright © 2021 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode Art, Editing,
and Production: Nila L.
Patel
Music:
“Wide place” by NICHOLAS JEUDY
(Intro and Outro)
“Abstract Vision #5” by ANDREW
SITKOV (Outro)
Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy
Studio)*
“Scroll of the wind
walker”
“Haven”
“In the shadows”
“Wide place”
“Shadows and flames”
Music by ANDREW SITKOV (MuzStation Game
Music)*
“Medieval Theme 5”
Music by JONATHAN SHAW*
“A Tale of Peace”
*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Jonathan Shaw, Nicholas Jeudy, Andrew
Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle, GameDevMarket, and Soundly (through
Hindenburg)
Changes made to the musical
tracks? Just cropping of some to align with my
narration.
Find more music by Andrew Sitkov,
Jonathan Shaw, and Nicholas Jeudy at gamedevmarket.net
Find more music by Jonathan Shaw at
jshaw.co.uk
Find more stories by Nila
at storyfeather.com
Episode Art
Description:
Digital drawing. A castle at center
with three main spires flying pennants, battlements, and flanking
symmetrical towers. The castle stands in front of a cave opening
through which light pours. Moss grows along the cave walls. In
front of the castle in the foreground is a bank of clouds.
Watermark of “Storyfeather” along cave wall at right.