May 5, 2023
A student seeking to learn the craft of enchantment is challenged to pass through a forest filled with strange obstacles.
Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Mythology
Excerpt:
“Wait until you are within
the borders of the forest before you open the box, else you have
failed before you have begun.”
With those words, the schoolmaster turned away and left Naji alone before the borders of the forest.
Naji entered the forest with no other possessions but that box, as the test required. He carried no water, no food, no clothing but what he already wore, no bedroll, nothing to trade or barter with.
But that is what he had chosen. A box.
What’s the Word (that inspired the
story)?
Who knows what I could have been thinking? I
certainly don’t remember, and I didn’t write it down this time. But
did you know that the Dutch word for “butterfly” is
“vlinder”? There’s a
Vlinder in this story.
Follow my Fictioneering
Mischief
Sign
up to get a monthly round-up of my recent podcast episodes, short
stories, trailers, news, recommendations, and more by email in the
STORYFEATHER
GAZETTE.
Storyfeather-themed
merchandise
T-shirts, mugs, stickers, notebooks, baby
onesies, and more featuring artwork from stories and art
challenges
STORYFEATHER
TEEPUBLIC STORE
CREDITS
Story: “The
Forest of the Dasollagi” Copyright © 2019 by Nila L.
Patel
Narration, Episode
Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Trip-Hop
Lounge Abstract Background” by Digital
Emotions (Intro/Outro)
Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy
Studio)*
“Lonely Day”
“Elders wisdom”
“The forest”
“Ancient gods”
“Deep lands part 2”
“Kingdom rises”
“Infinite land”
“Creatures of the night”
“The edge of nightmare”
“Back in the village”
“The bard”
Music by JONATHAN SHAW*
“Cold Sanctuary”
“Treading the Unknown”
*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Jonathan Shaw is
licensed from GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket
Find more music by Digital_Emotions at
audiojungle.net
Find more
music by Nicholas Jeudy and Jonathan Shaw 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. At bottom, center right, a figure seen in dark silhouette walks a forest path toward a simple cabin. Bordering this path is trees and shrubbery. The right side is in shadow. Light shines through the trees from top left. Along the left of frame, a faint shadowy figure extends a long-fingered arm toward the person walking to the cabin. The original image is a horizontal rectangle. The image is made square by adding borders at top and bottom that copy and extend the edges of the original image in grayscale and shadow.