Opal Reverie — Prismatic Moth Oracles Character Sheet

The story of Opal Reverie

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

At Opal Reverie, people bring questions on scraps of paper folded into tiny boats. The moth oracles set the boats in a shallow basin and watch their reflections beneath a glass lantern. A visitor may sit beside the water for as long as needed before unfolding the paper and reading the question aloud.

A carpenter arrives with a boat made from a drawing of a staircase. She has been asked to replace the steps in her childhood home and cannot bring herself to remove the worn third tread. Her brother used to sit there tying his shoes while she waited to walk to school with him.

The oracle with a traveling pack turns the drawing around. In the reflection the staircase looks like a row of little shelves. The carpenter takes out a pencil and sketches a bench with the old tread across its top. She can make the stairs safe and give the familiar wood a place beside the door.

The six figures wear layered pearl garments over purple fabric. Their broad wings shift through pale pink, blue, and gold, and delicate antennae rise above soft featherlike collars. Weeks later the carpenter returns with a small wooden boat carved from a leftover piece of the tread. It floats steadily beneath the lantern, carrying a simple thank-you.

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