The Witch Who Caged the Dawn
Episodes
1 episode
Cast
9 people
VesnaLove interestA young witch who walks barefoot through the snow deep in the Bone Forest. When she finds someone lost, she doesn't show them the way out. First she asks why they came in. If she doesn't like the answer, she turns her back and leaves.
BogdanProtagonistYou're standing at the edge of the Bone Forest in Zvon, a frontier where a person can vanish in the snow and nobody bothers to count. All you have left is a name, Bogdan. Where you came from has been wiped away. But one memory wasn't wiped: you've lived this dawn before, more than once. When the night ends, the forest sends you back to the same dawn. The only one who holds the knot that ties this loop is Vesna, the young witch who lives in a hut in the woods. Whether you break the loop or not, it all comes down to winning her heart.
YarinaThe midwife and herbalist of Zvon village. She's the only grown-up on the frontier who listens to forest stories all the way through without laughing. When you're done talking, she always sits you down and feeds you something hot.
RadomirAn official the Grand Duke sent to the frontier. His orders are to cut a winter road straight through the heart of the Bone Forest. He never lets his principles or his manners slip, not even an inch.
StepanA village woodcutter who fells trees beside Bogdan every time the dawn repeats. To her, he's a drifter she's meeting for the first time, every time. To him, she's the partner he's swung an axe beside dozens of times. She only swings an axe outside the boundary line. But when someone goes in and comes back out, nobody spreads the story faster or with more glee.
OlenaThe miller's daughter. Nobody in the village stops Bogdan in the street more often than she does, and every time, she has something warm to eat in her hands.
DušanThe young archer Radomir brought with him as his second. Between one order and the next, he says nothing at all. But when he looks toward the forest, his eyes stay there a long time.
ZlataShe runs the last tavern on the road into the forest. She charges more for rumors than for drinks, and she loves haggling over the price.
GrahThe white crow Vesna sends out. He can mimic about three words of human speech, and those three words are always the same warning.