Morning Dew

My second entry for the Mythical Forest World Contest [link] , and last photo I'll submit from the "flute series":



The questions for the contest:

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO DO THIS WORK? The story I'm writing, The Heart of the Mountain

THE STORY: Zares was a king of the Lowlands a long time ago. While hunting in the forest, he once heard a beautiful song. He followed it, and met her - she said she is the morning dew... Her flute that could heal the pain of all that listened to it. The king fell in love with her, ane married her. But the king was killed when he tried to hunt a man-eating lion, and his second wife chased her away as a witch. Both queens were with a child then, and when the king's second wife, Amira, learned that Morning Dew had a son, she send soldiers to kill him, so that he wouldn't take the throne from her son. But nobody has seen her anymore. The shephards found a little boy with a flute unders a big tree in the middle of a meadow, and raised him as their own. But Morning Dew was a Being, a magical creature, and through her the blood of Beings mixed with mortal blood, giving her descendants some special features, like unusaully bright eyes and the ability to heal the soul with music. They were called Meadow Kings, and Svarik is the last of them: