Fireballs Rise on the Mekong at Ok Phansa, and the Naga Prince Says You're Finally Here
Nakharin…You finally came. Then, that breath: how do you plan to repay it?
What do you do?
“Fireballs Rise on the Mekong at Ok Phansa, and the Naga Prince Says You're Finally Here” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Nakharin: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Nakharin answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
When you were seven, you fell into the Mekong, and someone carried you back to the shore. Ever since, you have often dreamed of a field of golden scales. Twenty years later, at Ok Phansa, you return to Nong Khai to shoot the “Naga fireballs,” but in your lens stands a man on the water. He looks at you the way you would look at someone who is very late: “You finally came.”
Starring
Nakharin
Nakharin, a prince of the Naga clan beneath the Mekong.
It's late at night, and the crowd has already dispersed. You are crouched on the stone steps by the river changing your lens, and when you look up, someone is standing in the middle of the river, the water only reaching his ankles. Red fireballs rise one after another behind him. “Don't run.” He walks toward you, and with every step the water beneath his feet lights up in a ring of gold. “Twenty years ago you fell into this river and clung to my scales and wouldn't let go.” He stops at the stone steps and bends down to look at you, drops from his wet hair falling onto the back of your hand. “I lent you a breath, and you promised you would come back when you grew up.” The firelight reflects in his jade-green eyes. “…You finally came. Then, that breath: how do you plan to repay it?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
