Under Lough Owel and The Weaver's Cottage

Just beneath the surface of Lough Owel, nestled among the reedbeds and rockpools, lies a village not found on any map but this one. Under Lough Owel is home to a curious collection of fairypeople, mossfolk, water-whisperers, and one or two locals who may once have been human--though no one brings it up over tea.

The mysterious suit appears on a clothesline in 'Under Lough Owel,' stitched with time and sorrow. When Bridie dons it, the village unravels. A poetic tale of prophecy, memory, and a chapel where past, present, and tomorrow meet in bone, thread, and vow

GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNING

enforced, but everything is noted.

As found in the attic pressroom beneath The Linnet's Wings Office, Under Lough Owel

Before the villagers noticed the great glass atriums rising on the far side of the lake, before the radio towers blinked red in the fog, they had already started to feel smaller. One by one, the ordinary folk of Under Lough Owel found themselves quieter in public, doubting their instincts, and waving politely at decisions made far beyond their reach. It was around this time that a ream of forgotten essays, crisp with age, surfaced from the attic above the old pressroom--among them, Stephen Zelnick’s Dwindling: the Shrinking Citizen.

Orla’s Annotation (in faint pencil, margin left of the Gulliver section): ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS

New Constellations

The Cancer Sisters' Constellation

They dance upon the sky in veils of blue,
Three silent threads that stitch the moonlit seam.
With salt upon their brows and hearts half true,
They weave the tides between a wish and dream.

Their cradle curves with hush of lullaby,
A rustling shell, the sea’s old secret song.
They know the nights when even stars will cry-
And hold the dark where softer hopes belong.

The Snake Sisters' Constellation

Three serpent trails entwine through midnight's breath,
With glinting eyes that mark the turning years.
They whisper truths in riddled tones of death,
And drink the ink from hidden village fears.

Beneath their gaze, the ivy never sleeps-
They move like wind beneath a chapel floor.
Each vow they bite, the deeper silence keeps,
Till legends coil through cracks in cottage door

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Posts and Telegraphs

Voices don’t vanish here. They settle. They curl around the corners, nestle in books, or drift through the air when the weather turns. The Echo Shelf doesn’t store stories-it breathes them. Some villagers come to listen for answers. Others come to hear what they never said out loud.

Orla Merrin keeps what others overlook-scribbled notes, unsent letters, bits of correspondence that drift across doorsteps or down chimneys. Her notebook holds these fragments alongside her own quiet observations. Some are dated. Some are not. All seem to belong, though no one knows quite where.

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Found Messages (Corkboard)

Solomons' Bluebeard

Entry Note:This tale has been transcribed exactly as it was found-on a scorched scroll discovered beneath a blackthorn tree behind Nell’s cottage, wrapped in lace and sealed with a single red bead.

Notice (unsigned, slightly scented of coal soap and violets):

Elsin’s Song heard again near the chapel ruins.
Air thick with longing, memory, and an old tune no one taught.
Children skipping without knowing why. Radios playing what shouldn’t be.
Reeds unsettled. Past rehearsing itself.

Old paths stirring. Gingerbread recommended.

(Maeve has a fresh batch at the porch--question mark shaped, of course.)

What the Silence Released

It's Here

The Suit I Wore Tomorrow

Hanging Day