[Fairy Tale] The Briar Wood
May. 16th, 2020 06:11 pmTitle: The Briar Wood by
Thimblerig
Reader:
cat_i_th_adage/
Thimblerig
Bingo Square(s): Read Sleepily
Fandom: Fairy Tales (Sleeping Beauty)
Pairing: Sleeping Beauty/Prince Charming
Length: 4:44
Summary: Long ago, but not so long as that, there was a briar wood grown sudden and strange. After the magic of its making it stood there a hundred years and more, the prickles and brambles and dark twisted branches providing a shelter and food for the travelling birds, the small furry creatures, the little snakes of silver throat… The briar wood was a place of song and blossoming greenery for much of its life, and beautiful, too.
In the centre of it, the heart, silent as a tree stump absorbing into the earth, was a little castle of dressed stone, and inside the castle were many sleepers, and in the highest tower, the isolate, the bare, was a room draped in silk...
Content Notes: Author Chooses Not To Warn. (Nothing graphic, and no sexual violence.)
Link to Podfic: On AO3
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Reader:
Bingo Square(s): Read Sleepily
Fandom: Fairy Tales (Sleeping Beauty)
Pairing: Sleeping Beauty/Prince Charming
Length: 4:44
Summary: Long ago, but not so long as that, there was a briar wood grown sudden and strange. After the magic of its making it stood there a hundred years and more, the prickles and brambles and dark twisted branches providing a shelter and food for the travelling birds, the small furry creatures, the little snakes of silver throat… The briar wood was a place of song and blossoming greenery for much of its life, and beautiful, too.
In the centre of it, the heart, silent as a tree stump absorbing into the earth, was a little castle of dressed stone, and inside the castle were many sleepers, and in the highest tower, the isolate, the bare, was a room draped in silk...
Content Notes: Author Chooses Not To Warn. (Nothing graphic, and no sexual violence.)
Link to Podfic: On AO3
My Card