Aug 5, 2026 · 2 hr 39 min · 12 segments
CONTENT WARNINGS: Gore, Graphic violence, harm to fantasy animals, the undead, blood, self harm, allusions to torture, blades, grief, child endangerment, pregnancy, misophonia, crucifixion, dental…
Jess JewellGuestMichelle KellyGuestMatt RisbyHostWrenGuest
Narrate a flashback to your initiation as a Crux druid, when you first heard the land speak clearly through the suffering.
Who was bound to the tree, and what small mercy did you grant them before the rite began? Nerid's eyes are full of all the horror they can hold.
He is a willowy thing, an initiate a little longer than Calix, but his back is strong.
The Grand Dryad stepped forward, binding two Crux druids together to eternity, two souls finding one another in the black.
It was beautiful and captivating, and when Nerid's hand slipped into Calix's, she knew she would be bound to this man to the end of time.
"Don't you think," he asks her, "don't you think maybe there is another way? Must we be bound? Could not perhaps we just go out into the world together and, and speak the words, remain initiate forever?" And Calix looks at him and knows that something has gone awry, something has gone wrong with the way he thinks, with the way he gives.
For in the morrow, in the darkness and in the torchlight, everything the Grand Dryad has said of us will be right.
The great glade of the Grand Dryad is encircled by a copse of silver birch trees.
Narrate a flashback to your initiation as a Crux druid, when you first heard the land speak clearly through the suffering.
Who was bound to the tree, and what small mercy did you grant them before the rite began? Nerid's eyes are full of all the horror they can hold.
He is a willowy thing, an initiate a little longer than Calix, but his back is strong.
The Grand Dryad stepped forward, binding two Crux druids together to eternity, two souls finding one another in the black.
It was beautiful and captivating, and when Nerid's hand slipped into Calix's, she knew she would be bound to this man to the end of time.
"Don't you think," he asks her, "don't you think maybe there is another way? Must we be bound? Could not perhaps we just go out into the world together and, and speak the words, remain initiate forever?" And Calix looks at him and knows that something has gone awry, something has gone wrong with the way he thinks, with the way he gives.
For in the morrow, in the darkness and in the torchlight, everything the Grand Dryad has said of us will be right.
The great glade of the Grand Dryad is encircled by a copse of silver birch trees.
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