[Original] The Fool Who Met Death

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Title: The Fool Who Met Death by Thimblerig
Reader: cat_i_th_adage/Thimblerig
Bingo Square(s): Wet
Fandom: Original Fairy Tale
Pairing: The Fool & Death
Length: 5:59
Summary: Once upon a time, there was a Fool who walked the earth. He had hairy breeks on his lower parts, and a green velvet doublet on top, and for a hat he wore a silver-pewter jelly-mold, all fluted around its sides.

And one night as he was walking on the moors, in a howling storm, with his silver jelly-mold jammed tight over his ears to protect him from the flashing lightning, he came upon a figure of darkness, swathed in dark cloth, with a dark bag clutched in their bony hand.

“Hello!” quoth he, for he was too foolish to recognise a power and a mystery...
Content Notes: None

Link to Podfic: The Fool Who Met Death, on AO3

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