Item ID: I-BL040
+Thistheatre script was found on the 7th floor in Headmistress Moretti's tower, at the Conciri's Compound in Alatri.
+(GM Only: This theatre script has scribbled in by Te'Lik, who wanted to “improve it” to make the main character - played by Te'Lik - perfect.)
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Novel called "The Willow Maiden".
+A tragic love story between a young human man and a fey maiden living in a willow deep in the forest.
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There's a song written on the last few pages of the book, after the epilogue, that appears to tell a shortened version of the same story:
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A young man walked through the forest with his quiver and hunting bow
+He heard a young girl singing and followed the sound below
+There he found the maiden who lives in the willow
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He called to her as she listened from a ring of toadstools red
+'Come with me my maiden Come from thy willow bed.'
+She looked at him serenely and only shook her head.
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See me now, a ray of light in the moondance
+See me now, I cannot leave this place
+Hear me now, a strain of song in the forest
+Don't ask me to follow where you lead
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A young man walked through the forest with a flower and coat of green
+His love had hair like fire her eyes an emerald sheen
+She wrapped herself in beauty so young and so serene
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He stood there under the willow and he gave her the yellow bloom
+Girl my heart you've captured. Oh, I would be your groom
+She said she'd wed him never. Not near, nor far, nor soon
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See me now, a ray of light in the moondance
+See me now, I cannot leave this place
+Hear me now, a strain of song in the forst
+Don't ask me to follow where you lead
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A young man walked through the forest with an axe sharp as a knife
+I'll take the green eyed fairy and she shall be my wife
+With her I'll raise my children. With her I'll live my life
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The maiden wept when she heard him. When he said he'd set her free
+He took his axe and used it to bring down her ancient tree
+Now your willow's fallen now you belong to me
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See me now, a ray of light in the moondance
+See me now, I cannot leave this place
+Hear me now, a ray of light in the moondance
+Don't ask me to follow where you lead
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She followed him out the forest and collapsed upon the earth
+Her feet had walked but a distance from the green land of her birth
+She faded into a flower that would bloom for one bright eve
+He could not take from the forest what was never meant to leave