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A student seeking to learn the craft of enchantment is challenged to pass through a forest filled with strange obstacles.

Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Mythology

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Excerpt:
\\u201cWait until you are within the borders of the forest before you open the box, else you have failed before you have begun.\\u201d

With those words, the schoolmaster turned away and left Naji alone before the borders of the forest.

Naji entered the forest with no other possessions but that box, as the test required. He carried no water, no food, no clothing but what he already wore, no bedroll, nothing to trade or barter with.

But that is what he had chosen. A box.

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What\\u2019s the Word (that inspired the story)?
Who knows what I could have been thinking? I certainly don\\u2019t remember, and I didn\\u2019t write it down this time. But did you know that the Dutch word for \\u201cbutterfly\\u201d is \\u201cvlinder\\u201d?\\xa0 There\\u2019s a Vlinder in this story.

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CREDITS
Story: \\u201cThe Forest of the Dasollagi\\u201d Copyright \\xa9 2019 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production:\\xa0 Nila L. Patel

Music:
\\u201cTrip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background\\u201d by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

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Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)*
\\u201cLonely Day\\u201d
\\u201cElders wisdom\\u201d
\\u201cThe forest\\u201d
\\u201cAncient gods\\u201d
\\u201cDeep lands part 2\\u201d
\\u201cKingdom rises\\u201d
\\u201cInfinite land\\u201d
\\u201cCreatures of the night\\u201d
\\u201cThe edge of nightmare\\u201d
\\u201cBack in the village\\u201d
\\u201cThe bard\\u201d

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Music by JONATHAN SHAW*
\\u201cCold Sanctuary\\u201d
\\u201cTreading the Unknown\\u201d

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*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

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Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Jonathan Shaw is licensed from GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net
Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy and Jonathan Shaw at gamedevmarket.net
Find more music by Jonathan Shaw at jshaw.co.uk
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. At bottom, center right, a figure seen in dark silhouette walks a forest path toward a simple cabin. Bordering this path is trees and shrubbery. The right side is in shadow. Light shines through the trees from top left. Along the left of frame, a faint shadowy figure extends a long-fingered arm toward the person walking to the cabin. The original image is a horizontal rectangle. The image is made square by adding borders at top and bottom that copy and extend the edges of the original image in grayscale and shadow.