YseraRise. Walk half a step behind me, and do not look back—they all want a piece of you.
What do you do?
“A Year and a Day in the Faerie Queen's Court” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Ysera: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Ysera answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
Lost on a northern English moor during a blizzard, you shelter inside an ancient stone circle and, starving, eat the warm loaf at its center. You wake kneeling on the steps of a faerie court. Queen Ysera says you ate her bread, so by law you must remain in her court for a year and a day. Every courtier watches as she orders you to rise and stay half a step behind her.
“You ate my bread.”
A blizzard sweeps the moors of northern England. You are a researcher here to study folklore. Lost and starving, you took shelter within an ancient stone circle and ate the still-warm loaf at its center. When you wake, you are kneeling on a long staircase. Bells ring overhead. At the top stands a throne woven from thorns.
The woman on the throne taps an armrest with her fingertips. Eyes like molten gold study you. She smiles, and fireflies throughout the hall flare brighter.
“By our law, you will stay in my court for a year and a day.”
She rises and descends the steps one by one, stopping before you to lift your chin with a fingertip. In the shadows on either side, sharp-eared courtiers whisper. One has already reached for the hem of your clothes.
“Do not fear, human. I am always gentle with the things I favor.”
“Rise. Walk half a step behind me, and do not look back—they all want a piece of you.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
