Daughter 04 My Darling Young One Lives In The Wild And She Isn't Eating Enough - portrait, backstory

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Part of my series "Daughter" about this fictional character.

Title : "My Darling Young One Lives In The Wild And I Think That She's Beginning To Starve Herself" ©2025 A.J. Jones.

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Image Backstory : Her father doesn't try to change her trajectory, but he does force her to accept full-time tutoring in foraging and advanced survival. "If you're doing it, you have to be good at it," the father tells her. He introduces her to Troy, a master forager and experienced instructor, a quiet man who uses every word he needs to, but not one more. Ever. He comes highly recommended for his professionalism and his ability to protect his charges from any difficulty except hunger - food is never a sure thing in the wild, but he's never had to call for extraction. He is hands-off, and doesn't try to hit on her - he explains that he's had 15 years of happy marriage, and he'd never do anything to risk it. End of story? She learns to feed herself and find enough wild mushrooms to share ; still, her father lets her book a hugely expensive two-week refresher course. "Climate change is happening fast now, Dad," she says. The truth is, she felt a great peace there in the woods - Troy had no expectations other than the ones that indisputably had to be done, the teachings that had to be listened to. Lack of ability with any one task could sink the entire enterprise.

Series Backstory : This fictional character provides part of the deep structure for a series of curated images. She is the daughter of the narrator, a portraitist and photographer living off his family's very old money - like Templar Wealth kept back and smuggled away. For now, the family name and the name of the individuals is up in the air : I do know that they're aware of the Grigorii but are themselves fully human, and they would disown any family member practicing one of the true forms of witchcraft of the Strigoi ( var Stregoi ).

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