Yesterday, we made our characters for a short-shot DND game my sister-in-law is DMing for us over the next few weeks. I’d never played a Druid, so I chose that class–Circle of Spores, baby! BECAUSE MUSHROOMS! (And decay!) (Thus, I named my character “Golden Chanterelle.” Possibly “Chant” for short. Or “Goldie.”)
And I love Changelings, so that’s the race I chose. I like shapeshifting, not only into animals but other things as well.
Background is “Feylost”–also a first for me. I love a girl who falls through a mushroom circle. And it’s sort of backwards for Changelings, isn’t it? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
So anyway, I figured I’d write today’s FAWMling song à la D&D, in the manner of my people. (My people being specifically… Dr. Mary Crowell, of “I Have Missed You at My Table” and “I Put My Low Stat.”)
I think I’ll spend the first half of the month writing lyrics, and then the second half of the month working up melodies or collaborating for them.
Golden Chanterelle
Whiff of nectar, golden-sweet
Smell of honey, dripping mead
Draw too near, you might find more
Breathing in her cloud of spore
She is Golden Chanterelle
Coat of moss and fairy bells
Fell asleep and fell through worlds
Now she walks, a wild girl
Under hemlock, under fir
You might find a trace of her
Look again, she’ll disappear
Misty-stepping far from here
She is Golden Chanterelle
Coat of moss and fairy bells
Fell asleep and fell through worlds
Now she walks, a wild girl
Giant boar and wild bear
Tiger, spider, goat, or hare
Chanterelle is girl and beast
Isn’t anybody’s feast
She is Golden Chanterelle
Coat of moss and fairy bells
Fell asleep and fell through worlds
Now she walks, a wild girl
BRIDGE
What can she protect?
What can she preserve?
Whom is she looking for?
Whom will she serve?
Hungry to connect
Afraid to be seen
Shy in the shadows
She hides in the green
She is Golden Chanterelle
Coat of moss and fairy bells
Fell asleep and fell through worlds
Now she walks, a wild girl
C.S.E. Cooney 