The Orchard on the Sleeping GiantFantasy fairytale
The Orchard on the Sleeping Giant
Mossborn troll Bram Alder has spent his life tending an orchard on the shoulder of a sleeping giant. When the giant begins to wake, a stern surveyor arrives to uproot the village. Bram must discover how to welcome a living neighbor without losing the home his father planted.
Ending promise · contains a broad spoiler
Happily ever after
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A widowed mossborn troll orchard keeper leads a hillside village through the awakening of the giant beneath its roots, opposing an evacuation surveyor whose caution conceals a previous rescue she could not finish.
Cast
Bram Alder
protagonist · wants Give his son a home that can survive change
Elspeth Vale
antagonist · wants Evacuate everyone before another awakening disaster
Tobin Moss
witness · wants Build a bridge the giant can cross without crushing his neighbors
The Orchard on the Sleeping Giant
5,421 published words · 80,000 planned