The Song of the Sidhe (Audio play)
Fizzy . for Aoife Connelly
Aoife (pronounced Eve), is the mother of the Connelly children - twins Muriel and Gwaine, Bran, Aisling (Ash-linn), Aiden, and Roisin (Ro-sheen), and the wife of Cian Connelly. She passes away before the story begins, back when Muriel and Gwaine are still teenagers. She is kind and usually exhausted from constantly running around after her little ones. When she dies after a plague sweeps through Hemshire, she forbids her eldest daughter, Muriel, from trying to heal her, as she knows it would only result in both of their deaths.
Song reference:
He was a wonderful man, your father. He looked much like you, Gwaine, except older, yet still so young. He carried himself with such grace, it seemed that he floated off the ground.
[ill, dying]
Be strong, a thaisce, you must keep going. Please, do not waste your magic to save me...it's too late. I can see how it is draining you...
No!
[coughs painfully]
No, Muriel. I forbid you to give up your life in exchange for mine. Do not throw your life away, a stóirín, be strong. Be brave, my treasure. Know I will always be by your side
[section of Bellyeamon Cradle Song]
The birdeens sing a fluting song
They sing to thee the whole day long
Wee fairies dance o’er hill and dale
For very love of thee
Dream, Dream, grah mo chree
Here on your Mamma’s knee
Angels are guarding and they watch o’er thee
As you sleep may Angels watch over
And may they guard o’er thee.
