In today’s episode we will hear a quick recap of Season 1 as we prepare to read the first chapter of season 2, Wingspan, next week.
Music: Nightbridge by Cannelle (www.cannellemusic.com)
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TRANSCRIPT:
Things with Wings Productions presents: A special episode of The Skylark Bell. I am your host, Melissa Oliveri.
In today’s episode we will hear a quick recap of Season 1 as we prepare to read the first chapter of season 2, Wingspan, next week.
So get comfortable… grab a blanket, and a warm drink… we’re getting started.
Margaret Phaeton, better known as Magpie, lived in the city with her mother until the day they moved into the old farmhouse on the outskirts of Pocket. The day they moved in she met her next door neighbour, Lucas. That was also the first time she laid eyes on the mysterious abandoned house at Meadow Lane.
It took some time for Lucas to open up about Meadow Lane, but he eventually told Magpie the stories handed down through generations about a mysterious silence hanging over the farm, and that no one who set foot there ever spoke or heard again.
Magpie found herself fascinated with the place, and began to notice connections between her mysterious visions and the house at Meadow Lane. One day she encountered an old woman named Farfalla, who was rumoured to have been the last resident of Meadow Lane, and, by some accounts, the one responsible for cursing it with the silence.
Over time Magpie put more and more of the pieces of this odd puzzle together until she finally realized the silence at Meadow Lane was spreading to the entire town. Farfalla sat down with Magpie at The Early Bird diner and told her the unbelievable history of the house at Meadow Lane and the mythical Skylark Bell. Farfalla told Magpie the only way to end the silence was to find the bell, hidden within the confines of the house at Meadow Lane, and ring it loud and clear.
Magpie successfully swallowed her fears and braved the silence at Meadow Lane in search of the bell. She was successful in her quest and did indeed end the silence, but the celebrations were short-lived as she and Lucas learned of Farfalla’s passing the following day.
As Magpie and Lucas were gathering Farfalla’s things from her tiny house around the corner from Tuffeto’s bakery, they heard impossible footsteps behind the closed door of an empty room. When they re-entered the room they found a sketch that hadn’t been there earlier. On the back of the sketch were four words that turned everything they thought they knew about Meadow Lane upside down. I AM NOT FARFALLA.
Thank you so much for listening. Join me next week as we begin the second season of The Skylark Bell by reading chapter 1 of Wingspan, where we will reconnect with Magpie and Lucas 2 years after the events at Meadow Lane as they prepare to travel overseas to claim a house handed down to Magpie by her great-great-grandfather James Carnifex.
Before I go, I’d like to thank Phaeton Starling Publishing for this fantastically eerie story, as well as Cannelle for composing equally fantastic and eerie music for this podcast.
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