Fic, and podfic!: 'I'll Mount the Air on Swallow's Wings'

This was written for the pod_together challenge, which luzula suggested doing together. She introduced me to the lovely Burns poem 'Song Composed in August', which has lots of birds and nature imagery in it—here is a particularly beautiful recording of it as a song, which really emphasises the nature/ecological aspect of it—and came up with the idea that the narrator's love interest is actually a bird shapeshifter, which I had a great time developing and writing. Then, of course, both of us liking folk music and podfic being an ideal medium for including songs in a story (and, really, Burns's poems often seem a bit ballad-ish—they're certainly popular with folk singers), I worked various other ballads into the fic, which luzula has sung beautifully in the podfic. :)

I'll Mount the Air on Swallow's Wings (8002 words) by Luzula_podfic, regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Song Composed in August - Robert Burns
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Narrator/Peggy (Song Composed in August)
Characters: Narrator (Song Composed in August), Peggy (Song Composed in August)
Additional Tags: Birds, Shapeshifting, Folk Music
Summary:

A holiday to the grouse moors of Scotland provides an opportunity to get to know the local bird life—but things turn out to be a bit more complicated than that.