Echoes of the Toll BridgeFantasy fairytale
Echoes of the Toll Bridge
In the perpetual gloom of Ancients Cove, Bram, a troll bridge-keeper bound by an ancient, unpayable toll, is haunted by the ghost of his long-lost love. When a mysterious woman arrives seeking passage, their tragic romance unfolds against a backdrop of dread and irrevocable loss, where the cost of crossing is more than gold—and no charm can fix what has been broken.
Ending promise · contains a broad spoiler
Bittersweet
Bram, a mossborn troll who has guarded the only dry crossing for decades by demanding a toll that cannot be paid in money, is confronted by the arrival of Lysa, a mortal woman carrying a debt from a past he shares with a spectral figure named Edrin. As Bram and Lysa's fateful connection deepens, they face the dread of an unfixable wrongness entwined with a haunting that neither charm nor bargaining can undo, while a weary ferryman named Joren watches the unfolding tragedy with silent complicity.
Cast
Bram
protagonist · wants To lift the curse of the toll that binds him and reclaim the love he lost long ago.
Joren
witness · wants To see the curse broken, though he fears it is beyond hope.
Lysa
antagonist · wants To cross the bridge and reclaim a lost part of herself tied to Bram and the ghost Edrin.
Echoes of the Toll Bridge
1,774 published words · 2,200 planned