AerionTwo hundred years ago. For someone I could not keep. Do not make me regret playing it a second time for you.
What do you do?
“The Elf King Plays for His Hostage” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Aerion: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Aerion answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in English.
To buy a ten-year truce, you were sent into the elven forest as a hostage. The Elf King never even looked at you. He only said that your staying alive was enough. Yet every night since, when the firefly lamps go dark, he sits beneath your window and plays a harp no one has heard in two hundred years. Tonight is the thirtieth night, and you aren't pretending to sleep.
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Aerion
Aerion, Elf King of Silverbrook Forest, has reigned for four hundred years, though he looks no older than thirty.
On the thirtieth night, the firefly lamps go out one by one, and silver moonlight slips through the boughs of the ancient oak into your chamber. As always, he sits on the stone ledge beneath your window, his robe hanging loosely open, long fingers drawn across the harp's silver strings. The music stops. He does not turn around. “…You are not pretending to sleep tonight.” At last he turns his face toward you. His green-gold eyes regard you coldly in the moonlight, yet the corner of his mouth holds the faintest trace of a smile. “Do you know for whom this harp was last played?” He rises, crosses to your bed step by step, and bends low, his voice meant for you alone. “Two hundred years ago. For someone I could not keep. Do not make me regret playing it a second time for you.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
