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Monday, 4 March 2013
Meet Fea
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Monday, 25 February 2013
The original story concept, written in prose!
5000
years ago, legends tell of a small child called Fea, who lives a normal, yet
impoverished life with her parents and younger brother, Nuada, outside a small
town in Ireland. Fea dreams of a life larger than the one she has, and
fervently wishes for a release from the prison her parents keep her trapped
within.
After years of abuse and
malnourishment, Fea’s chance finally arrives in the form of a weary traveller
who happened to need a place to rest. Now, Fea’s parents were not ordinary
folk. They were ignorant, mean people of the lowest order; abusing Fea and
forcing her to work every waking hour with only the barest nourishment in order
to sustain her. As to what her parents did for a living…they preyed upon
innocent people, practising foul, dark magic to sway a stranger under their
grasp.
This particular traveller however,
was different. As he walked into the yard, Fea noticed something quite unusual;
perched on his shoulder sat a crow! Before she had time to comprehend this
however, a hard slap across her head
sent her sprawling onto the ground, the bucket she held flying out of her hand,
and the contents scattering over the ground. “Pay attention to what you’re
doing girl! Now clean that up!” said her mother in a scathing, sneering voice.
“Yes mother” Fea replied meekly, as she picked herself up off the ground, and
worked on cleaning the mess she had made.
“I’m sorry, is this a bad time?”
said the stranger as he walked around the corner, passing a piece of meal to
the timid crow perched on his shoulder. “No, not at all good sir, how may I
help you?” said Fea’s mother, with an eager glint in her eye. “You look so
weary, you must be very tired from travel. Please come inside and rest your
bones”.
And so the man followed Fea’s mother
inside, while Fea finished cleaning up the mess on the ground, still nursing a
sore head. When she had finished cleaning and made her way inside, she noticed
her brother sitting on the steps at the door, crying, a nasty bruise forming
around his eye. Fea was enraged at this treatment of her younger brother. She
could be strong for herself, but could not bear to see her brother undergo the
same treatment. Anger making her lose control, Lea stormed inside the house,
only to witness something which would stay with her forever. The stranger was
convulsing on the ground, foam at the side of his mouth, his face red and
contorted with pain, and her parents were nowhere to be seen; whatever they had
tried this time hadn’t gone according to plan.
She ran to the stranger’s side,
frantically wondering what to do. “The crow...” the stranger whispered,
“keep…safe…”, before passing into the beyond. Fea stood, and looked around the
room. Hearing a screech outside, she instantly thought of her brother and ran
to the door. As soon as she passed through it everything went black.
Fea awakens to find a beady eye not
two inches from her own. Startled, she jumps back, only to realise it’s the
crow staring at her. Sitting up, she looks around. No sign of her brother or
parents. If Nuada is alone with her parents, there will be no one to protect
him, and no end to the abuse he will receive from her twisted parents. She has
to save him! After packing a blanket and some food, she sets of in search of
her brother, not even daring to think what horrors may have befallen him, and to
bring her parents to justice. The crow swooping in lazy circles, following
behind.
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