Someone stole my book and ran it through an AI and then published it on Amazon.

What a Silly Goose.

Please consider, with your love for the Dark Enchanted Forest, to please go and NOT BUY THIS BOOK from the dastardly Henry who did this. I want to keep posting for free on RR without sadnesssss.

*I can't believe you've done this* Henry.

Also authors, please check out his other stolen books to see if they are yours. This week a whole bunch of stories got stolen 😔

Your regular chapter will be posted after I edit it.

I can't post this without 500 words so here's another song and lyrics!

You can ask Spotify or YouTube or your music player to play Dragon's Wife by Jaz Laverick. CD MINSTREL FINE.

You (G) say that you have (Em) heard the tales

and (C) rightly so you (D) may

But (Em) I have one that (C) I would love

to (D) sing for you (G) today

I traveled over mountainpass

and through the wind and rain

I stopped in Martha Burry’s Inn

and thought it'd be my last

And sometimes when I tread the peak

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I’d hear a quiet sound

that (Em) settled in my (D) wayward ear

and (C) followed me (G)around.

(Em) I am a bard, (C) a wanderlust

and (G)I am made to (D) sing

(Em)Lightfoot and (C) lark hearted

(D)my fingers love the (G)strings

I left the road to follow fast

a whisper, a suggestion

Through the mountainside I came

to ease my song obsession

I heard it in my blood and bones

A thunder in the air

Over jagged rock and stones

into a dragon's laire.

His scales where sterling silver,

tooth and claw a striking white.

His voice was deep and dulcet as

it echo’d in the heights

“Womanling, you’ve left your fire

What did you think to find,

For don't you know, I hunger and

We feast upon your kind.”

I am a bard, a wanderlust

and I am made to sing

Lightfoot and lark hearted

my fingers love the strings

I answered in an honest truth,

It was your voice that called

from through the mountainside I came

i have been clear enthralled

And if I die to hear you sing

My life is better lost

For just one song before I go

It would be worth the cost.

The Dragon laughed and settled down

He sang to me a tune

I couldn't help but hum along

It ended far too soon

“Would that the mountain had a heart,

Would that the wind had breath

If stars could hum, and ocean drum

Such music, light and death.”

I am a bard, a wanderlust

and I am made to sing

Lightfoot and lark hearted

my fingers love the strings

We sang under that pale moonlight

And I bargained for my life

to die or stay forever and

become a dragon’s wife.

I settled in the mountainside

an aria at dawn

the harmony at brightest day

at dusk an evensong

In time I told him who I’d been,

he shared with me his name

But I am a creature of the air

my voice grew soft and strained

With every day I lived I lost

A little off my soul

And so my husband made a choice:

The Dragon let me go.

I am a bard, a wanderlust

and I am made to sing

Light footed and lark hearted

My fingers love the strings

He gave to me a silver gem

Bound fast by a silver chain

He said to keep it by my heart

and there is still remains

The light is on the mountainside

The rumble in the clay

My husband sleeps under the sun

Where a sleeping dragon lay

I hoped that you enjoyed my song

for I'll be leaving soon

Im going home to my own love

To sing a happy tune.

I am a bard, a wanderlust

and I am made to sing

Light footed and lark hearted

My fingers love the strings x2

(final chorus notes)

Em D Em D

G Em D G