When her head cleared she inspected herself thoroughly and
thankfully found no blood, but by the heavens did it ever hurt, she hadn't felt
pain like that since that time her tail got caught in a castle gate and she had
to tear it off, it took hundreds of years to fully grow back when she was just
a fledgling. Perhaps my subconscious mind remembered that time and that's why I
took to walking as a human so quickly, she figured.
She got up and
brushed the grass and dirt from herself as well as continued to rub her mound
where she had stabbed it, she picked up the shard and held it without tossing
it and continued to the forest being careful of where she stepped. " It
seems my body has an unusual flaw up here on my chest, one that I am going to
have to keep in mind and find a way to protect better in the future." As
she continued walking and thinking, she did not even notice the forest coming
up before her and before she knew it, she walked directly into a tree, she fell
on her butt and looked up at the foliage, instantly perturbed with the tree,
she gave it a slight kick with her foot while thinking to herself "Stupid
tree!" The tree shook and leaves fell from the branches along with some
round yellow balls that fell around her body, she instinctively covered her
head with arms and waited for everything to stop moving and half expected the
tree to fall on her head but thankfully that never happened.
She opened her eyes and looked around noticing the yellow
balls that had fallen from the tree and the perfect imprint of her foot that
she had left in the tree along with some backwards letters in the imprint that
she recognized, E A F. She looked at the tree for a moment then grabbed her
foot lifting and twisting it toward her face,sure enough there on her foot was
the word FAE. She said the word to herself and then again this time aloud in a
squeaky quiet voice...fae.. and again but a little louder but it sounded like
Faaaaeeeee, again she tried annoyed with her meek little voice Faaeee, she
didn't know why but something about that word resonated within her, it
felt.....good, to say it and so she did, over and over. Faaaeee, Faaee,
fae,fae,Fae,Fae.
