Lady in Waiting is a flash folk-horror1 told through prayers. Each episode is just minutes long. This is an immersive audio drama. So, turn your volume up. A supplement to the audio drama The Thief. Go in cold, you don’t have to know anything.

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Day one

Ginger, borrowed from the kitchen. A snip of hair. I write your name in charcoal. Gall from a cyrsdaléa. I kneel in front of an altar I made from wildflowers in a ditch and pray you find this in the ring.

Áda, grandfather, I need your tall shadow to hide me tonight.

The sun is setting and I can feel my own father's panic. I am not home. In my place at his door is Aelfsi, an old kindlinger, and (with my own Lady's very blessing) a column of third-born caldhréonw who are disappearers.

I am not far outside the cyngdón.

Help me make it to Lingwiloce, áda. Please. I kiss this letter so you know it's really me, and I consign it to the dirt.

Furbelow

Written and produced by Michael Schofield

Performed by Rae Witte
Introduced by Jeremy Roman
Inspired by S. Kaiya J.’s game Her Odyssey (2)

Lady in Waiting is produced by the fyrd: our thegns Nandi K, Amzylee, Trei Brundrett, Andy McLellan, Eudico, Rebekah Monson, Andy Priestner, Mike Atchley, Patrick Myers, and Cordelia Black.

You can join the fyrd and help me make this stuff through Substack or Patreon.

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1 "Flash folk-horror” was the best I could come-up with to describe an audio drama that is less than 2 minutes.

2 Her Odyssey is a solo-journaling came about a wanderer trying to find her way home. (link)