Dawn After Night, Spring After Winter
Hutchinson’s Bank Trail
Post Five
As you come to each post, stop for a moment to read each prompt and build your story as you walk. You can also play this at home on an imaginary adventure.
Listen to an audio recording of each post below.
5: The glade
Through the gate, keep to the left, on the track, and you’ll find yourself in a grassy glade, a beautiful walkway of chalky grassland. The glade is a beacon of life, a home to a multitude of plants, flowers, spiders and bugs. Can you see something you’ve never seen before? Maybe it could become part of your story, as a character, a wonder or a threat. In summer look out for a bright green, oval and upright plant, with a single, tall spike that bears the spores. This is an Adder’s-tongue fern, that lives all year as a rhizome beneath the earth. It is a sleeper. But now it is awake. Let us be awake too. Now let’s build our story.
What sends them on their journey?
They need to reach a loved one
They need to find a cure
To find help
They must return home
They must find what they’ve lost
Invent something else
Describe the urgent event that has lead to your character being on a journey now. What was the moment when it was clear they must go? What delayed them until then?
