Aries Phoenixflight is a hero, though not strictly speaking the hero of this story. While on a quest to marry the most beautiful princess in the world, he encounters a witch who smells of moldy goat cheese, a palace of peerless pulchritude, a thief-turned-fiddle-player, and an award-winning Chicken Marsala recipe.
Merry Songchaser is the heroine of this story, though not a hero in the professional sense. When Aries Phoenixflight travels to the town of Tipsidy in search of a remarkable fiddle – Tipsidy being the town where Merry was born and raised by her pa, a celebrated cabinet- and fiddle-maker – Merry tags along with the hero and his disgruntled assistant in search of adventure. She soon finds herself dealing with fruit flinging pistols, fire-resistant firewood, card games without any rules, golden goose-egg omelets, and much more adventure than she actually anticipated.
And, on top of the death-defying drama (for all but Aries, who, as a hero, cannot die until his quest is completed), happily ever afters (for those characters lucky enough to marry royalty, that is), and complete disregard for the fourth wall, is the thistleswitch itself; which, beyond its function as the title of the story, causes a whole lot of trouble for everyone.
In other news, I've officially started work on the sequel.
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