Our Narratress Introduces Herself

By now, dear reader, I should think that you are awfully curious as to who I am exactly, or rather, who it is I claim to be. Well then, allow me to resolve any confusion that may have crept into your mind.

In this place, they call me ‘The Lady of the Autumn Flowers’, but once… once I had a mortal name, and once upon a time, I was very much like you.

Now, however, I have become a part of what we call ‘The World Between’: a place where waking reason has no meaning, a place where you prepare yourself to give up your body and your sense so that you may one day understand what both those things may mean, and so that you may better understand the world in which you live.

My little slice of the World Between is the Rose Garden – a place that you already know almost as well as I. There are many other secrets hiding in the World Between, and if you travel with me long enough then I have no doubt in my mind that you shall see a few of them. In the Time to Come, I shall take you with me to court with ancient Faerie Kings and Queens. We shall dance with animals made flesh around the fires in the fields, pick tiny shells out from the fathoms far beneath the ocean, and braid alpine flowers into our hair high up among the clouds themselves. I shall take you with me as I call on dear friends and quarrel with those who set themselves against me, you shall meet those who teach and guide me as well as those placed in my care, and you shall learn that I – like you – can laugh and cry and love and hope and hurt as well as anyone.

And maybe, just maybe, I shall let you walk with me into your own world and play what games we will with the minds of mortal girls and boys.

Forget what your Waking World has told you… You are stepping into the World Between – A place of dreams, of magic and of madness and of moonlight…

My name is Lady Rosalie, and I am utterly enchanted to meet you.