[5 / 1 / 5]
Picks up from previous story in CYOA anthology of short stories. Keep going or Nah?
CH 1.] Your path descends into a shallow canyon, its walls, loamy clay, alive with moss and turned by wriggling things. It feels like the season, new, as if just dug by some Giant’s spade. The gorge widens, and drops with each step to a gentle gouge in the earth, broadening to reveal its end, the base of a creek and the bank of a cloistered lake. The first tepid nights of spring have come and thawed small pools in the frozen waters; the solid cap now an archipelago of slush and retreating masses of ice, tethered by narrow veins of unsure depth. Buildings, stacked of grey-green sun-dried clay at the water’s edge, make a village. And one more, older, and of timber floats above the lake shore, staked into its bed like a pier. It is midday and the cathedral sun is banishing the morning fog. A solitary figure stands motionless out on the ice. Maybe a fisherman, or a shade, or a trick of lights and shadows.
To go down to the village, Go to Chapter 2.]
To further inspect the surrounding area, Go to Chapter 3.]
To go down to the lake, Go to Chapter 4.]
To continue traveling and ignore the Village, go to Chapter 5.]
CH 1.] Your path descends into a shallow canyon, its walls, loamy clay, alive with moss and turned by wriggling things. It feels like the season, new, as if just dug by some Giant’s spade. The gorge widens, and drops with each step to a gentle gouge in the earth, broadening to reveal its end, the base of a creek and the bank of a cloistered lake. The first tepid nights of spring have come and thawed small pools in the frozen waters; the solid cap now an archipelago of slush and retreating masses of ice, tethered by narrow veins of unsure depth. Buildings, stacked of grey-green sun-dried clay at the water’s edge, make a village. And one more, older, and of timber floats above the lake shore, staked into its bed like a pier. It is midday and the cathedral sun is banishing the morning fog. A solitary figure stands motionless out on the ice. Maybe a fisherman, or a shade, or a trick of lights and shadows.
To go down to the village, Go to Chapter 2.]
To further inspect the surrounding area, Go to Chapter 3.]
To go down to the lake, Go to Chapter 4.]
To continue traveling and ignore the Village, go to Chapter 5.]
