cat_i_th_adage ([personal profile] cat_i_th_adage) wrote in [community profile] podfic_bingo2020-05-16 06:11 pm

[Fairy Tale] The Briar Wood

Title: The Briar Wood by [archiveofourown.org profile] Thimblerig
Reader: [personal profile] cat_i_th_adage/[archiveofourown.org profile] 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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