forum "Wait, you... you're... magic?" "Darling, what do you think?" (Fantasy o/o Closed)

Started February 01, 2022 by @emilyevewrites group

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Farah lifted her chin and tilted her head. "You're not a fairy, though. Are you?" she asked. She didn't recognize the girl if she was.

"Nope nope nope! I am human! I am a wild thing, my parents always said." Shade grins.

She walks up to the tree and climbs it.

Farah finally cracked a small smile. "I can see that," she said, her eyes following Shade as she climbed higher. "Be careful!" she called.

"Careful careful careful!" Shade calls back down, the sound of wild, lilting laughter following it. She's already halfway up the tree. She deftly flips off the tree and lands on her feet.

"Do you want a shiny?" she asks, her hands weaving a string into a net.

Farah's eyes went wide as Shade flew through the air. She gasped slightly when she landed on her feet, but the girl was already off again. "What is a 'shiny'?" Farah asked.

Shade grins when Farrah gasps at her launching herself into the air. "I do that a lot a lot a lot!"

"A shiny is a thing that is shiny, silly!" Shade says, pulling out a chunk of white obsidian and holding it out to Farrah.

Farah slowly reached out and took the obsidian. "Where did you get this?" she asked, turning it in her hands.

"Around! On the ground ground ground. Near the mountains!" Shade beams.

"Pardon my forwardness, but do you always talk like that?" Farah asked. Her tone wasn't demeaning or rude, she was genuinely curious about Shade's repetitive speech habits.

"Yup! I always have. I always always always will!" Shade laughs, spinning in circles. She stops suddenly, facing Farrah.

"Do you want to race me?" she asks, bouncing in place.

"What?" Farah asked, stifling a laugh. "Where would we race to? And why?"

"Somewhere somewhere somewhere. Does it matter where?" Shade grins.

“Traditionally, a race has a set end line,” Farah remarked knowingly.

"I don't follow old dusty dusty dusty traditions. That's boring. I'm not one of the Fae." Shade says, her eyes locked onto Farrah's.

Farah lifted her chin slightly. "Alright. Let's race," she conceded.

Shade laughs her wild lilting laugh and takes off, faster than thought.

Farah grinned and bolted after her through the trees.

(I have a plan, don't worry!)

Still laughing, Shade weaves her way through ancient groves, mystic meadows and babbling brooks, listening to hear if Farah is still following. Once they reach the edge of the forest, which is incidentally the edge of a cliff, Shade just continues on, flipping over the edge.

(Kk, I gotchu)

Farah followed, scrambling to a stop before she reached the cliff. She could catch herself if she fell, but then she'd give herself away as fae.

Just bellow the cliff, Shade is being held by a giant raptor. A peregrine falcon, to be exact.

"Hop on on on! We can go for an aerial tour of the forest on-" she said, the last word uttered in Peregrine. It sounds something like scree-AW.

Farah's eyes were wide. She grinned and didn't hesitate in taking a leap off the cliff.

Shade laughs. "And we're off!"

They sweep away over the top of the forest, exploring the entirety of everything. At the end of the day, Sahde starts falling asleep, so the peregrine sets them down on the forest floor once more.

Farah felt Shade falling asleep on her, and she gently shifted so the girl would be comfortable.

Shade yawns, then snuggles right up against Farah. The sprite makes its home in Shade's hair, and falls asleep itself, still clutching the diamond.

The next morning, Shade wakes up and climbs the tree, to better see where they are.

When Shade first woke the next morning, Farah was already wide awake and alert. Her head was on a swivel, keeping an eye out for anything around them. "What do you see?" she asked, following Shade up the tree at a slightly slower pace.