Frannie-May's adventure

You are standing at the start of a storytelling journey. Your responses will contribute to a story that will tell itself. The story will be made by many minds...woven into a pattern that no-one can foresee...the unthought tale…

There will be questions and challenges.

Let them echo in your memory. Use that memory as your starting point.

Challenge Number One

Please answer the following questions:

Cautious or risk-taking? < Frannie-May chose Risk-Taking

Nature or gadgets? <Frannie-May chose Nature

Birds or fish? < Frannie-May chose Bird

In the middle of the night you arrive at a camp site and pitch your tent in a gale. There is a forest nearby and you walk into it. It is completely dark. You hear voices talking. One of the voices asks you for a story. What do you tell them and why?

The music stirs the wild wood into motion. The fox and wolf dance and catch your eye. Then they run off and you run after them, driven by the wild swirl of music and caught by the colours and sunshine of the forest.

Further and deeper, you find a grove of trees decorated and woven together into a mysterious bower…you push beyond the trees and find a cave.

A hermit sits inside the cave. She looks up, sees you, puts a finger to her lips.

You stop and gaze around. The hermit points to things you can see around the cave.

How do they fit together? Find the three objects that create the key.

The thunder resounds….as large drops of rain begin to strike the earth. The trees stir and shiver. A curtain of rain descends and the thrumming of a downpour fills the cave. Flickers of lightning shimmer into the gloom as you stare at the book, its pages turning as you gaze. You shiver, a cold air has entered the cave….the forest is wild, you cannot return the way you came you must go on….the pages turn and the hermit suddenly reaches forward and presses a finger down on one of them. You look at it. It is covered in writing, pictures and syllables you know how to read. The sounds all around are the sounds of the forest, of the forest enclosed in its own thoughts, and the words of the book express this forest, and you wonder, should you read them? Do you have the power, the understanding to read them? The hermit gazes at you, and in her eyes you see your own path. You study the words, concentrating on them. You realise that this is precious knowledge that you can return with, or knowledge you can use now in a moment of decision and transformation…Either you read them silently and keep this understanding to be used in a future moment. Or you pronounce them, give them life and feel their power acting now on you...

Do you speak the words or read them silently?

Frannie-May chose Speak the Words