Post by Aspen on Apr 22, 2010 20:53:18 GMT 1
Lelia Stromfeld
Faie
Talia
~Lelia Stromfeld~
Look past the sight of trees
Beyond the dark bounds of reality
Lay in wait the vicious and mysterious kind
--== In a Homestead in Wales ==--
: says to Faie:.... ~Lelia was humming. She quite liked to hum, and today was no different. The sky gloomy and dark and still she was humming. The water buckets she carried in both hands were currently empty but she was close to the well to fix that. Setting one bucket on the edge of the well Lelia paused in her humming staring off into the forest not far beyond the well. What mysteries were hidden there? That was very much the question as of late. So many stories by the older couple that she found herself ever more curious, ever more eager to want to go and visit the depths of those woods, but she had yet to find time to take such an adventure.
As her name is called from one of the houses behind her she turns. The water was to be boiled and used to help with dinner. Dumping her first bucket into the water she soon drops the second into the well to gather the water there also. Carrying both with her back to the home her gaze shifts behind her only briefly. Oh, what an adventure it would be to try and search out one of the many fae that dwell there. Later, she promised herself, later she would find her adventure, but first she must finish her chores.~
: says to ~Lelia Stromfeld~ Look p:.... *Aye the old couple that ye worked for had told tales, some filled with laugh, other sad.. many where wicked and strange. Tales about places in the forest where one could get lost, lost and never return.. Oh did the old lady have a few tales about them. Carrying the bucket back toward the house and the chores. A glance at the forest that lay so close, protecting the houses were ye had the animals, where ye and the old couple lived and of course the house where their daughter and son lived. The forest was not silent, there was birds, insects and other animals there but ye couldn't shake that feeling being watched..
That feeling, it was an old one. Remember when ye where a child just a few years five perhaps. Ye and..and a friend it was out in the forest playing. Thus whisperings, thus hummings.. something lurking, something pulling. Then through ye growth it had vanished a little, now and then been there in the back of ye mind. But since ye came here to work, since then it had started. Thus strange events, thus musts as the old lady said that need to be done.. and again that strange feeling of being watched had came back*
Talia
--== The Forests of Wales ==--
: says to ALL:.... -and there it was watching, the child of the forest, that strange lady simply sat in a branch of atree giglgign soflty at the sigt of the small homested there. her glamer woudl prevent her from beind seen, her body still hald sunt intot he tree there then disapearinginto it apearing at antoerh tree not far formt aht one stoppingout intot he forest floor silent and sitll for the brefest of moment before a soft giggle agian erupted form her a haunting echoing sound, thought he girl coudl not see her hearing her was posable, at the moment that green lady stood her body coverd in thick layer of leaves like a dress pasted onto her skin, that hair of hers slowly slithering aroudn over the bark of the trees movieng and slithering around on it's own-
: says to ALL:.... Hurry now..
~The words spurred Lelia from her daydreams and turned back towards the door. Taking one bucket to the house of the couples daughter she bowed her head to them. Quickly making her way back to the other home she moved into the building, this time leaving the door open as she worked at getting the water going. The feelings and thoughts, the memories of her childhood, so much lately they had been a draw to make her wish to be outdoors. Letting the air flow through the room she worked on getting the dinner started.
Despite the scary and wicked tales that had been told Lelia enjoyed each and every story that was told. Humming an old tune, a tune she had hummed in the trees, Lelia worked quickly, if she got it done she could go and enjoy her time outdoors, she had some mending to do and doing it out by the trees was very much a good thought to her. Laughter, every time Lelia closed her eyes she thought she heard laughter, a sweet giggling that reminded her only of her childhood. It must be in her memories that the laughter came, but it was much more fun to imagine that the laughter came from someone, or something lurking in the woods.~
: says to Talia:.... *Moving through what was known among the humans.. the Hedge, the Mist oh dreaded it was that place. Or was it a state of mind? Well never the less, it was not fun to get lost there and oh so many humans had. But here ye stood now in the forest in Wales where the wind sang a spring tune, and winter had been brushed away.. seem Ardhel had finally succeed to hunt down the winter fa'ae and the dance had begun. But what was that? A hum, ye eyes could sense humans, there was buildings not to far from where ye stood in the forest. Ah there was a call out seem to be a for a name.. not yours hmm so who was it for?
Lelia:: Aye that laugh was heard... or was it? A glance over the shoulder, a gaze into that forest that lay in a gloomy darkness now. Was it just ye mind playing a trick? No there it was again. It seem thought that the daughter of the house had not heard it. But when ye came into that room where ye were to put that bucket, ye could see the old lady peek out through the window. As she turned around she pulled her scarf tighter and said.. ""now now child.. close that door. Not wish to let them gentry run amoke here aye?.. Lelia, have ye put out the porridge from this morning? On the south east corner of the house.. and a the wooden mug with the sour milk?" *Aye there was thus Musts that had to be done, to please the fa'ae creatures.. some just shrug their shoulders at that.. well thus that lived in thus villages. But out here among the tall old trees, the deep forest and the dark lakes.. everyone know how to deal with the gentry ones*
: says to ALL:.... - she sighed soflty the humans where here now as well and wait, she tilte dher head slowly the feel of somone moveing thoguth eh forest and step ontot he fournds the trees sways and moved and she griend jumping into a treee and disapearing just to poke her head out of a tree near the princess there- "my my little sister, awake already, me and mine had not even goteen spring around yet, your early"- she giggled again stepepign formt he tre fuly, her long hair movieng to try and coil around the princess as ehs skipped around her now, where she stepped flours and ivy spourted growing slowly along the grass- "what brings you here little sister?"
: says to ALL:.... ~A sheepish smile crossed her lips as she moved to the door. Looking out wistfully before she closed it she turned to go back towards the elderly lady. Smiling to her Lelia listened as she prepared food, nodding her head before she paused. The milk, she had set the porridge out but she had forgotten the milk. Oh dear, that was not something good. Putting some carrots into the stew she dried her hands as she spoke.~
“Oh, I have forgotten the milk. The porridge is out though….Where did you put the milk?”
~Looking around for the milk she knew it was a perfect excuse to get outside once more. She had to put potatoes into the warming water but not until it had heated up. Looking to the venerable lady she waited for the answer to the question that had been spoken. Lelia didn’t see the milk, though she knew it had to be nearby. Pulling off the apron that protected her clothing she smiled at the thought of going outdoors once more.~
: says to Talia:.... *The fa'ae leaned against the tree, it glanced at ye with that smile that has been there for a long time now* "early? Hmf I'm hunting winter, the dance is about.. I will crush her once and for all now" *Riight.. well of course Dream wouldn't crush winter fa'ae, this dance was something they had done ages and ages..since winter, spring, summer and autumn was to be in this world. And as then as now it was like the first time ever that dance was. Everytime it was like that.. as if it never had happen before. But now to the more interesting part* "What I'm doing here.. well there is a nice place, and the monkeys here are very interesting.. they are good to the soil, the forest. They have built their building with the trees around here.. but not just taken it, but giving something back all the time. I like to come and watch them" *The fa'ae creature glanced about the house a few hundred meters away. The light from the candles in the windows would shimmer in the darkness outside. Like tiny stars that had fallen to the ground.. "Then there is another .. I have seen her before, she is fun to play with. Perhaps ye meet that one"
Lelia:: *To work with nature was mm strange for some people. Thus that lived in the villages and had start to listen to that new religion many time laughed behind the back of thus that like ye self and the eldery ones. Peasants ye where and ye all had this strange ideas and doings. But they of course knowed, even if they didn't admit it openly.. your doings was important.. for sometimes forgetting something could be sooo not good. It could mean anything from always get a little stone in the shoe, a prick of a needle in the finger, just a little bad luck.. to find one cow taken away, always bringing sour milk, unable to light the fire in the fireplace.. to get lost in the forest.. some even spoke about being killed, taken away.. serve like a thrall to the wicked fa'ae creature beyind the Mist.. do their wicked deeds, till ye went crazy.. "I put it in the bowl on the bench, next to the water bucket.. didn't ye see it?" *Had it been thrown out, no no.. it must be there, well perhaps ye had just not pay attention to it when ye went out the first round*
: says to ALL:.... "build their buildings from trees?"- she blinekd a few times as if it sounded truly proposterus that anyone woudl remove a tree, but movieng alogn the forest floor toward the clearing that had made she gasped, that livley hair she hadd ropped in shock, the insects and critters that lived within it fleesing there as the little nymph flenched her hands into fists and growled then relaxed slowly finger tappingon her thigh there- "yes perhaps i shoudl play with this one as well, what do you say littler sister a game? perhaps a long game, pulling her to a ring?"- she looked back a strang emix of malice and mischef writed across the olive skin there- " they s houdl not have cut down mine freinds little sister, when brick is easy enough to make"
: says to ALL:.... “Oh, that’s right….”
~She remembered now where the bowl had been. Lelia had been so eager to go and get the water from the well that would take her closer to the forest that she had forgotten the bowl when she returned. Smiling she bowed her head to the elderly lady, a show of respect that she didn’t have to do, but did all the same before she turned and ran out the door. She had some time before the stew would be ready for her to add more items to it. Finding the milk she secures it carefully in her fingers wrapped around the wood to make sure that none of the precious liquid would spill. Carrying it to the corner of the house where she had left the porridge she carefully bent down so that she could set the bowl next to it.~
“There we go, now everything is set…”
~Was she speaking to someone? Maybe, or perhaps she was speaking to herself. Glancing towards the forest as she catches her flying hair she smiles slowly. Yes, things were quite good now. She would have to return to the house soon, but taking a step away from the milk and porridge she paused, watching the two bowls she wished she could see one of the little creatures. It was sad that the others of the village wouldn’t listen, if only they knew what they were missing.~
: says to Talia:.... *The fa'ae tasted that anger that vibrated in ye.. bricks what was that? But the fa'ae leaned close to ye. The lips brushed the ear as it spoked* "They gave things, there was a child born here it was given to us. *The fa'ae brushed the moist hair from the shoulder of yours* "And see there and there, that is new born of us, put to the soil by them monkeys here *As ye could see there was new trees, they had asked for permission to take and the only away they were aloud was to give something back.. and they had done that. The old woman in the house, when she was younger.. had given away her first born to the fa'ae creature in the forest.* "aah, I think that is a beautiful idea, such a splendid idea.. a game we give that young monkey.. a long one it shall be.. a ring she will come to of course.. and that will be not only one time but many.. " *The black ponds what could called eyes shimmerd in the night light.. the stars was shining bright. Yet the forest was gloomy and dark. The fa'ae kissed ye cheek as if it was the first time.. licked its lips and turned toward the direction of the house as there was sounds there again, a mischievous grin danced over its lips.. "can ye taste it" *aah there it was.. that old milk and a day old porrige.. aye some spoke of it as just legends and superstition, but it was true.. giving old milk and porridge was something the fa'ae creatures liked.. *
Lelia:: The land outside, did sing, it vibrated. It was not clear why or was it? There was something a sense of well nae words could explain why it rushed down ye spin. But there ye stood watching the bowl.. glanced out to the forest that hoover around the few buildings ye had here. Perhaps ye could hide, perhaps just go for a little walk mm just a few minutes... what was that? was there words in the wind?*
: says to ALL:.... Ann:-she relaxed abit knowing the other was there and pointignout the new tree haveing bene planted "oh dear sister one wee one is not replace for theos old they have killed, but it is a start"- she grinned thought he idea of playign with the lass was vary nice, feeling of lips on her cheek made her smile, that hairl starting to flow around again vine like hair movieng to coil around ann again as she sniffed nodding- "yes little sister i taist it mm, go and hav eyou fill, i will meet you int he game"
Lelia:- oh yes a game indeed as the nymph woudl move around atree disapearing and apearing not far formt he lass but actuly visable tot he owmen, but not as herself but a small money child, the girl clad in wha tlooekd like bed wair frighting and holding a bleeding arm, formt he look she had bene biteen by soemthing the wound encumpessed the uper part of her arm there. she jsut leaned intoa tree and sniffled deeply loud enough to be herd. if the girl took notice of the child, she woudl back adn start to flee not to quickly yet just movieng thought he thick tree line easly followed... for now-
: says to ALL:.... ~Lelia watched and studied and waited while she looked at the different bowls, first one then the other. Oh, she knew she shouldn’t be here, but it was too fascinating to watch. Pushing her hair back she looks to the door, she should be going away, she should be going back into the home and finishing the dinner she had started to cook. Maybe she had some time? Could she linger and hide to catch a sight? That would be nice. She could run away into the trees for a little while, say that she is seeking the flowers and some herbs to make the meal better? But no, she shouldn’t do that, not now. A lingering gaze turns to the forest just in time, just to see that small child with an injured arm. Surprise passed her eyes, causing Lelia to move towards the forest a step as she spoke.~
“Little one, what are you doing here? You shouldn’t be out here…No, wait, don’t go that way…”
When the child had started to move away Lelia took a few more steps forward. Something made her pause though, some reminder that nagged at the back of her mind and caused her to look towards the porridge and milk. Shaking her head just a little the hand that Lelia had held out to catch the girl fell to her side as she took a half step backwards. No, Lelia knew that the fae played tricks, was this one of those? Oh, if only she could tell, if only she knew how to tell. If it was real, if the little girl was injured then she should go shouldn’t she? No, no, first Lelia must speak with the lady, the woman would know what to do.~
: says to Talia:.... "the child's blood was good, the oak was glad to receive it" *The child that had been give to the forest had been tear a part and its blood had been given to the old oak, that let the blood soak in, and spread through the soil. The fa'ae leaned against the tree as ye moved, watching the glamoure take a new shape and there now stood this hurt little girl.. The fa'ae blinked and glanced toward the house and would watch what the monkey would do now. The fa'ae watched how the human was touched by your glamoure, and how ye lured her .. Dream actually laughed, but that would more trickle like a rustle in the leaves..
Lelia:: *As ye went away, followed the sound and did see the girl.. Ardhel was moving too but not same direction like Talia no no, that fa'ae wanted the milk.. now that would be a tale huh, the fa'ae princess cough slurping old milk at the corner of a house in the middle of the forest.. The Dream chuckled and went toward the house, well it wouldn't be seen just like that. That was because glamoure and of course the world as it was this days. When Ardhel came to the bowl with milk, the fa'ae leaned down and dipped the long slender fingerlike twig into it.. it was smelling, it had lumps mmmmm it was delicious. It was like a pond of water that had been still for .. for well long long time. The twig moved to its lips and licked the milk off. The fa'ae stood up and glanced out, did see how Talia in her new shape moved deeper into the forest.. mm and ye didn't move.. how come? Didn't children have such effect on humans.. The fa'ae laughed gently, a song it was, a rustle in the leaves like a breeze perhaps. The fa'ae snatched the bowl and took a few steps back into the forest from the house.. and ponder if to drink, eat it now or walk that half circle back where ye stood and where Talia was moving deeper into the forst*
: says to ALL:.... -by the green lady, the lass was not following. the child would stopp agian slumped agnest atree stilll within her sight and looked bakc, the blood ont he gournd looked real enough, coudl even be smelled in the air, thank a ealy wolven kill for that, sitll blood was blood right? after all fea blood did not look like a moneys, so it had to be real.... or at least the nmph hoped. as the child looked bakc more fritened then ever and turend aroudnt aht tree soft foot steps herd as the ltitle figured hurred off-
: says to ALL:.... ~Lelia watched the child, hesitance clear in her features as she wanted to move forward towards the girl but not wanting to find herself in trouble. The blood was real though, was it not? It was right there, right in front of her. Then there was a faint moment, something in the corner of her eye. When she looked there was nothing there, nothing in her view anymore. Shaking her head it worried her, it was wrong and left a bad feel to the air. Was it the child who was hurt? Was it that child’s pain that was turning the air? Uncertain Lelia shifted upon her feet. No, this was too much for one person. Instead of following the child she raised her voice, turning to look back to the house she called for one of the young men there to help her.~
“Wait just a moment little one, don’t go, we’ll get you some help…”
~Yes, safety in numbers. Lelia wasn’t supposed to be wandering the woods alone, she had never been supposed to wander the woods alone though she did anyway sometimes. This was not to be one of those times, after all she was supposed to meet a young man who her parents had sent to meet her later this even, it wouldn’t do good to get lost in the woods and be late to this meeting.~
says to ALL:.... *The fa'ae moved into the treeline again, there it stood just a moment.. perhaps it was a few seconds for a human a full day for a fa'ae.. time was not really part of the fa'ae way of thinking. It walked slowly or slide between the trees as if they gently gently bent the twigs to let the fa'ae through. But then it stopped, now standing so that on the right hand few meters was this human, and on the left hand few yards in the forest was Talia. The mischievous grin was dancing up on the lips. It let a trail of words, or was it just a taste in the air? But it did call, not intense, not forced.. just gently pulling .. "why not go, she is not that far from .. ..ye" *The taste, the emotion the playfullness that lingerd whatever expression now touched the air.. it was directed to Lelia. The old lady in the house had heard Lelia and was leaving her chair and walk to the door*
: says to ALL:.... -great....oh wait two for the price of one allright, ohhh a male how nice, someone she didn't have to be gental with, wait those were horrable thoughts, no this was simply playing, she walked alogn smearing small child hand prints ont he bark of the trees as she faked stumbeling along, yes she woudllead this women off to the ring, but how to do it if she had someons else with her, perhaps she shoudl clal one of her sisters to come and help-
: says to ALL:.... ~Lelia was looking back to see what was behind her, but she heard the words, the feelings that drew her to looking once more towards the child and the area that the child had been. Hesitance made her take one step forward before stopping again. She shouldn’t, but the child might need her. Pushing back her dark hair Lelia shook her head a moment after, watching the child stumble away.~
“Please don’t go that way, come back little one. I can’t follow you that way….”
~Lelia didn’t want to meet another man, but she had left the last time this man came, if she did it again her parents would be very upset. Glancing towards the buildings she waited to see if someone was coming before she would take another step towards the child. She couldn’t leave the little one all by herself, that would not be like Lelia to do. Oh obligations, how they strung at ones heart. If only she could just abandon life and her chores. The meal was going to be boiling now, she needed to finish cooking and preparing, not run after this child.~
: says to ALL:.... "she needs ye, its easy.. just go over take the hand and walk back .." *The expression was sweeping over the body of Lelia.. it was the way the fa'ae expressed it self. For Lelia that might just felt like her own ideas, or perhaps it was the whisperings in the breeze. There was a faint smell of sour milk a few meters from Lelia.
The fa'ae glanced to Talia in her mm child form. Damn it if Tiril was here that little bug could have teased Talia .. The fa'ae dipped the finger in the milk.. a drip and drop .. The door was opened from one of the buildings.. and the old lady called out* "Lelia.. was that ye?"
: says to ALL:.... -waiting sitting by atree and huffs the girl was slowly moveing for the forest there. looking up at the other fa'ae she grumbled softly waveing it off abit tryingto think of what to do now witht he help of the otehrs she hoped it was goignto be quicker but then nymph where rather sudden thigns not likeignto wait for anything, even when they should-
: says to ALL:.... ~Needed, Lelia should go, the man could come back another time, it was no desperate need. But this little girl is hurt and going the wrong way. Lelia should keep walking into the trees and follow the little girl. The thought was broken mid-step when she heard her name spoken by a familiar voice. Turning back to look at the house and the lady that was there Lelia smiles softly gesturing towards the woods.~
“Call you call your son? There’s a little girl here who looks injured, I need to tend the stew…”
~The stew, that was going to burn. Lelia was thinking far too much to be seduced by the thoughts of running away. She needed to go back. It was easy to think that while she was turned away from the child, but once she looked back to the little girl. Once her gaze had turned to look over to the child again the stew was pushed out of her thoughts in favor of running away.~
: says to ~Lelia Stromfeld~ Look p:.... *The old lady stood there with the door open.. ponder over your words* "a girl, here how?..when?" *She seem to take a few steps out when ye said thus about her son.. She nodded, mm well and ye could hear she called out for the son. The sour milk become strong there for a moment, a claw touched the chin* "next time, dance.. dance with...ussss" *The expression trickled down like heated honey over ye shoulder.. slipped under the dress.. But there was non there.. a twig was shivering as if ye had accidently touched it in your turning.. perhaps it was that that had brushed ye chin.. a gentle breeze played through the hair, perhaps that was what ye felt.. oh the stew.. or was it really so.. could it been... was the milk bowl gone?**
Talia:: *The fa'ae grin and walked toward ye with teh bowl of sour milk, oh it did really smell good.. "Isn't it fun, I have seen that monkey struggling before.. there is a a wish and yet something that hold back" *The fa'ae found the very interesting indeed. This game would be long, it would someday drag Lelia to a ring, there would be times when she would be in Annwfn and having the best or the worse time ever.. only to wake up in her own bed, or where ever she went to sleep, unsure if it was all a dream or not, till she see her muddy feet. Or finds her dress be tearing, or sad, hollow, angery something of no obvious reason.. oh the game was on and it would play a long long time.. *
Faie
Talia
~Lelia Stromfeld~
Look past the sight of trees
Beyond the dark bounds of reality
Lay in wait the vicious and mysterious kind
--== In a Homestead in Wales ==--
: says to Faie:.... ~Lelia was humming. She quite liked to hum, and today was no different. The sky gloomy and dark and still she was humming. The water buckets she carried in both hands were currently empty but she was close to the well to fix that. Setting one bucket on the edge of the well Lelia paused in her humming staring off into the forest not far beyond the well. What mysteries were hidden there? That was very much the question as of late. So many stories by the older couple that she found herself ever more curious, ever more eager to want to go and visit the depths of those woods, but she had yet to find time to take such an adventure.
As her name is called from one of the houses behind her she turns. The water was to be boiled and used to help with dinner. Dumping her first bucket into the water she soon drops the second into the well to gather the water there also. Carrying both with her back to the home her gaze shifts behind her only briefly. Oh, what an adventure it would be to try and search out one of the many fae that dwell there. Later, she promised herself, later she would find her adventure, but first she must finish her chores.~
: says to ~Lelia Stromfeld~ Look p:.... *Aye the old couple that ye worked for had told tales, some filled with laugh, other sad.. many where wicked and strange. Tales about places in the forest where one could get lost, lost and never return.. Oh did the old lady have a few tales about them. Carrying the bucket back toward the house and the chores. A glance at the forest that lay so close, protecting the houses were ye had the animals, where ye and the old couple lived and of course the house where their daughter and son lived. The forest was not silent, there was birds, insects and other animals there but ye couldn't shake that feeling being watched..
That feeling, it was an old one. Remember when ye where a child just a few years five perhaps. Ye and..and a friend it was out in the forest playing. Thus whisperings, thus hummings.. something lurking, something pulling. Then through ye growth it had vanished a little, now and then been there in the back of ye mind. But since ye came here to work, since then it had started. Thus strange events, thus musts as the old lady said that need to be done.. and again that strange feeling of being watched had came back*
Talia
--== The Forests of Wales ==--
: says to ALL:.... -and there it was watching, the child of the forest, that strange lady simply sat in a branch of atree giglgign soflty at the sigt of the small homested there. her glamer woudl prevent her from beind seen, her body still hald sunt intot he tree there then disapearinginto it apearing at antoerh tree not far formt aht one stoppingout intot he forest floor silent and sitll for the brefest of moment before a soft giggle agian erupted form her a haunting echoing sound, thought he girl coudl not see her hearing her was posable, at the moment that green lady stood her body coverd in thick layer of leaves like a dress pasted onto her skin, that hair of hers slowly slithering aroudn over the bark of the trees movieng and slithering around on it's own-
: says to ALL:.... Hurry now..
~The words spurred Lelia from her daydreams and turned back towards the door. Taking one bucket to the house of the couples daughter she bowed her head to them. Quickly making her way back to the other home she moved into the building, this time leaving the door open as she worked at getting the water going. The feelings and thoughts, the memories of her childhood, so much lately they had been a draw to make her wish to be outdoors. Letting the air flow through the room she worked on getting the dinner started.
Despite the scary and wicked tales that had been told Lelia enjoyed each and every story that was told. Humming an old tune, a tune she had hummed in the trees, Lelia worked quickly, if she got it done she could go and enjoy her time outdoors, she had some mending to do and doing it out by the trees was very much a good thought to her. Laughter, every time Lelia closed her eyes she thought she heard laughter, a sweet giggling that reminded her only of her childhood. It must be in her memories that the laughter came, but it was much more fun to imagine that the laughter came from someone, or something lurking in the woods.~
: says to Talia:.... *Moving through what was known among the humans.. the Hedge, the Mist oh dreaded it was that place. Or was it a state of mind? Well never the less, it was not fun to get lost there and oh so many humans had. But here ye stood now in the forest in Wales where the wind sang a spring tune, and winter had been brushed away.. seem Ardhel had finally succeed to hunt down the winter fa'ae and the dance had begun. But what was that? A hum, ye eyes could sense humans, there was buildings not to far from where ye stood in the forest. Ah there was a call out seem to be a for a name.. not yours hmm so who was it for?
Lelia:: Aye that laugh was heard... or was it? A glance over the shoulder, a gaze into that forest that lay in a gloomy darkness now. Was it just ye mind playing a trick? No there it was again. It seem thought that the daughter of the house had not heard it. But when ye came into that room where ye were to put that bucket, ye could see the old lady peek out through the window. As she turned around she pulled her scarf tighter and said.. ""now now child.. close that door. Not wish to let them gentry run amoke here aye?.. Lelia, have ye put out the porridge from this morning? On the south east corner of the house.. and a the wooden mug with the sour milk?" *Aye there was thus Musts that had to be done, to please the fa'ae creatures.. some just shrug their shoulders at that.. well thus that lived in thus villages. But out here among the tall old trees, the deep forest and the dark lakes.. everyone know how to deal with the gentry ones*
: says to ALL:.... - she sighed soflty the humans where here now as well and wait, she tilte dher head slowly the feel of somone moveing thoguth eh forest and step ontot he fournds the trees sways and moved and she griend jumping into a treee and disapearing just to poke her head out of a tree near the princess there- "my my little sister, awake already, me and mine had not even goteen spring around yet, your early"- she giggled again stepepign formt he tre fuly, her long hair movieng to try and coil around the princess as ehs skipped around her now, where she stepped flours and ivy spourted growing slowly along the grass- "what brings you here little sister?"
: says to ALL:.... ~A sheepish smile crossed her lips as she moved to the door. Looking out wistfully before she closed it she turned to go back towards the elderly lady. Smiling to her Lelia listened as she prepared food, nodding her head before she paused. The milk, she had set the porridge out but she had forgotten the milk. Oh dear, that was not something good. Putting some carrots into the stew she dried her hands as she spoke.~
“Oh, I have forgotten the milk. The porridge is out though….Where did you put the milk?”
~Looking around for the milk she knew it was a perfect excuse to get outside once more. She had to put potatoes into the warming water but not until it had heated up. Looking to the venerable lady she waited for the answer to the question that had been spoken. Lelia didn’t see the milk, though she knew it had to be nearby. Pulling off the apron that protected her clothing she smiled at the thought of going outdoors once more.~
: says to Talia:.... *The fa'ae leaned against the tree, it glanced at ye with that smile that has been there for a long time now* "early? Hmf I'm hunting winter, the dance is about.. I will crush her once and for all now" *Riight.. well of course Dream wouldn't crush winter fa'ae, this dance was something they had done ages and ages..since winter, spring, summer and autumn was to be in this world. And as then as now it was like the first time ever that dance was. Everytime it was like that.. as if it never had happen before. But now to the more interesting part* "What I'm doing here.. well there is a nice place, and the monkeys here are very interesting.. they are good to the soil, the forest. They have built their building with the trees around here.. but not just taken it, but giving something back all the time. I like to come and watch them" *The fa'ae creature glanced about the house a few hundred meters away. The light from the candles in the windows would shimmer in the darkness outside. Like tiny stars that had fallen to the ground.. "Then there is another .. I have seen her before, she is fun to play with. Perhaps ye meet that one"
Lelia:: *To work with nature was mm strange for some people. Thus that lived in the villages and had start to listen to that new religion many time laughed behind the back of thus that like ye self and the eldery ones. Peasants ye where and ye all had this strange ideas and doings. But they of course knowed, even if they didn't admit it openly.. your doings was important.. for sometimes forgetting something could be sooo not good. It could mean anything from always get a little stone in the shoe, a prick of a needle in the finger, just a little bad luck.. to find one cow taken away, always bringing sour milk, unable to light the fire in the fireplace.. to get lost in the forest.. some even spoke about being killed, taken away.. serve like a thrall to the wicked fa'ae creature beyind the Mist.. do their wicked deeds, till ye went crazy.. "I put it in the bowl on the bench, next to the water bucket.. didn't ye see it?" *Had it been thrown out, no no.. it must be there, well perhaps ye had just not pay attention to it when ye went out the first round*
: says to ALL:.... "build their buildings from trees?"- she blinekd a few times as if it sounded truly proposterus that anyone woudl remove a tree, but movieng alogn the forest floor toward the clearing that had made she gasped, that livley hair she hadd ropped in shock, the insects and critters that lived within it fleesing there as the little nymph flenched her hands into fists and growled then relaxed slowly finger tappingon her thigh there- "yes perhaps i shoudl play with this one as well, what do you say littler sister a game? perhaps a long game, pulling her to a ring?"- she looked back a strang emix of malice and mischef writed across the olive skin there- " they s houdl not have cut down mine freinds little sister, when brick is easy enough to make"
: says to ALL:.... “Oh, that’s right….”
~She remembered now where the bowl had been. Lelia had been so eager to go and get the water from the well that would take her closer to the forest that she had forgotten the bowl when she returned. Smiling she bowed her head to the elderly lady, a show of respect that she didn’t have to do, but did all the same before she turned and ran out the door. She had some time before the stew would be ready for her to add more items to it. Finding the milk she secures it carefully in her fingers wrapped around the wood to make sure that none of the precious liquid would spill. Carrying it to the corner of the house where she had left the porridge she carefully bent down so that she could set the bowl next to it.~
“There we go, now everything is set…”
~Was she speaking to someone? Maybe, or perhaps she was speaking to herself. Glancing towards the forest as she catches her flying hair she smiles slowly. Yes, things were quite good now. She would have to return to the house soon, but taking a step away from the milk and porridge she paused, watching the two bowls she wished she could see one of the little creatures. It was sad that the others of the village wouldn’t listen, if only they knew what they were missing.~
: says to Talia:.... *The fa'ae tasted that anger that vibrated in ye.. bricks what was that? But the fa'ae leaned close to ye. The lips brushed the ear as it spoked* "They gave things, there was a child born here it was given to us. *The fa'ae brushed the moist hair from the shoulder of yours* "And see there and there, that is new born of us, put to the soil by them monkeys here *As ye could see there was new trees, they had asked for permission to take and the only away they were aloud was to give something back.. and they had done that. The old woman in the house, when she was younger.. had given away her first born to the fa'ae creature in the forest.* "aah, I think that is a beautiful idea, such a splendid idea.. a game we give that young monkey.. a long one it shall be.. a ring she will come to of course.. and that will be not only one time but many.. " *The black ponds what could called eyes shimmerd in the night light.. the stars was shining bright. Yet the forest was gloomy and dark. The fa'ae kissed ye cheek as if it was the first time.. licked its lips and turned toward the direction of the house as there was sounds there again, a mischievous grin danced over its lips.. "can ye taste it" *aah there it was.. that old milk and a day old porrige.. aye some spoke of it as just legends and superstition, but it was true.. giving old milk and porridge was something the fa'ae creatures liked.. *
Lelia:: The land outside, did sing, it vibrated. It was not clear why or was it? There was something a sense of well nae words could explain why it rushed down ye spin. But there ye stood watching the bowl.. glanced out to the forest that hoover around the few buildings ye had here. Perhaps ye could hide, perhaps just go for a little walk mm just a few minutes... what was that? was there words in the wind?*
: says to ALL:.... Ann:-she relaxed abit knowing the other was there and pointignout the new tree haveing bene planted "oh dear sister one wee one is not replace for theos old they have killed, but it is a start"- she grinned thought he idea of playign with the lass was vary nice, feeling of lips on her cheek made her smile, that hairl starting to flow around again vine like hair movieng to coil around ann again as she sniffed nodding- "yes little sister i taist it mm, go and hav eyou fill, i will meet you int he game"
Lelia:- oh yes a game indeed as the nymph woudl move around atree disapearing and apearing not far formt he lass but actuly visable tot he owmen, but not as herself but a small money child, the girl clad in wha tlooekd like bed wair frighting and holding a bleeding arm, formt he look she had bene biteen by soemthing the wound encumpessed the uper part of her arm there. she jsut leaned intoa tree and sniffled deeply loud enough to be herd. if the girl took notice of the child, she woudl back adn start to flee not to quickly yet just movieng thought he thick tree line easly followed... for now-
: says to ALL:.... ~Lelia watched and studied and waited while she looked at the different bowls, first one then the other. Oh, she knew she shouldn’t be here, but it was too fascinating to watch. Pushing her hair back she looks to the door, she should be going away, she should be going back into the home and finishing the dinner she had started to cook. Maybe she had some time? Could she linger and hide to catch a sight? That would be nice. She could run away into the trees for a little while, say that she is seeking the flowers and some herbs to make the meal better? But no, she shouldn’t do that, not now. A lingering gaze turns to the forest just in time, just to see that small child with an injured arm. Surprise passed her eyes, causing Lelia to move towards the forest a step as she spoke.~
“Little one, what are you doing here? You shouldn’t be out here…No, wait, don’t go that way…”
When the child had started to move away Lelia took a few more steps forward. Something made her pause though, some reminder that nagged at the back of her mind and caused her to look towards the porridge and milk. Shaking her head just a little the hand that Lelia had held out to catch the girl fell to her side as she took a half step backwards. No, Lelia knew that the fae played tricks, was this one of those? Oh, if only she could tell, if only she knew how to tell. If it was real, if the little girl was injured then she should go shouldn’t she? No, no, first Lelia must speak with the lady, the woman would know what to do.~
: says to Talia:.... "the child's blood was good, the oak was glad to receive it" *The child that had been give to the forest had been tear a part and its blood had been given to the old oak, that let the blood soak in, and spread through the soil. The fa'ae leaned against the tree as ye moved, watching the glamoure take a new shape and there now stood this hurt little girl.. The fa'ae blinked and glanced toward the house and would watch what the monkey would do now. The fa'ae watched how the human was touched by your glamoure, and how ye lured her .. Dream actually laughed, but that would more trickle like a rustle in the leaves..
Lelia:: *As ye went away, followed the sound and did see the girl.. Ardhel was moving too but not same direction like Talia no no, that fa'ae wanted the milk.. now that would be a tale huh, the fa'ae princess cough slurping old milk at the corner of a house in the middle of the forest.. The Dream chuckled and went toward the house, well it wouldn't be seen just like that. That was because glamoure and of course the world as it was this days. When Ardhel came to the bowl with milk, the fa'ae leaned down and dipped the long slender fingerlike twig into it.. it was smelling, it had lumps mmmmm it was delicious. It was like a pond of water that had been still for .. for well long long time. The twig moved to its lips and licked the milk off. The fa'ae stood up and glanced out, did see how Talia in her new shape moved deeper into the forest.. mm and ye didn't move.. how come? Didn't children have such effect on humans.. The fa'ae laughed gently, a song it was, a rustle in the leaves like a breeze perhaps. The fa'ae snatched the bowl and took a few steps back into the forest from the house.. and ponder if to drink, eat it now or walk that half circle back where ye stood and where Talia was moving deeper into the forst*
: says to ALL:.... -by the green lady, the lass was not following. the child would stopp agian slumped agnest atree stilll within her sight and looked bakc, the blood ont he gournd looked real enough, coudl even be smelled in the air, thank a ealy wolven kill for that, sitll blood was blood right? after all fea blood did not look like a moneys, so it had to be real.... or at least the nmph hoped. as the child looked bakc more fritened then ever and turend aroudnt aht tree soft foot steps herd as the ltitle figured hurred off-
: says to ALL:.... ~Lelia watched the child, hesitance clear in her features as she wanted to move forward towards the girl but not wanting to find herself in trouble. The blood was real though, was it not? It was right there, right in front of her. Then there was a faint moment, something in the corner of her eye. When she looked there was nothing there, nothing in her view anymore. Shaking her head it worried her, it was wrong and left a bad feel to the air. Was it the child who was hurt? Was it that child’s pain that was turning the air? Uncertain Lelia shifted upon her feet. No, this was too much for one person. Instead of following the child she raised her voice, turning to look back to the house she called for one of the young men there to help her.~
“Wait just a moment little one, don’t go, we’ll get you some help…”
~Yes, safety in numbers. Lelia wasn’t supposed to be wandering the woods alone, she had never been supposed to wander the woods alone though she did anyway sometimes. This was not to be one of those times, after all she was supposed to meet a young man who her parents had sent to meet her later this even, it wouldn’t do good to get lost in the woods and be late to this meeting.~
says to ALL:.... *The fa'ae moved into the treeline again, there it stood just a moment.. perhaps it was a few seconds for a human a full day for a fa'ae.. time was not really part of the fa'ae way of thinking. It walked slowly or slide between the trees as if they gently gently bent the twigs to let the fa'ae through. But then it stopped, now standing so that on the right hand few meters was this human, and on the left hand few yards in the forest was Talia. The mischievous grin was dancing up on the lips. It let a trail of words, or was it just a taste in the air? But it did call, not intense, not forced.. just gently pulling .. "why not go, she is not that far from .. ..ye" *The taste, the emotion the playfullness that lingerd whatever expression now touched the air.. it was directed to Lelia. The old lady in the house had heard Lelia and was leaving her chair and walk to the door*
: says to ALL:.... -great....oh wait two for the price of one allright, ohhh a male how nice, someone she didn't have to be gental with, wait those were horrable thoughts, no this was simply playing, she walked alogn smearing small child hand prints ont he bark of the trees as she faked stumbeling along, yes she woudllead this women off to the ring, but how to do it if she had someons else with her, perhaps she shoudl clal one of her sisters to come and help-
: says to ALL:.... ~Lelia was looking back to see what was behind her, but she heard the words, the feelings that drew her to looking once more towards the child and the area that the child had been. Hesitance made her take one step forward before stopping again. She shouldn’t, but the child might need her. Pushing back her dark hair Lelia shook her head a moment after, watching the child stumble away.~
“Please don’t go that way, come back little one. I can’t follow you that way….”
~Lelia didn’t want to meet another man, but she had left the last time this man came, if she did it again her parents would be very upset. Glancing towards the buildings she waited to see if someone was coming before she would take another step towards the child. She couldn’t leave the little one all by herself, that would not be like Lelia to do. Oh obligations, how they strung at ones heart. If only she could just abandon life and her chores. The meal was going to be boiling now, she needed to finish cooking and preparing, not run after this child.~
: says to ALL:.... "she needs ye, its easy.. just go over take the hand and walk back .." *The expression was sweeping over the body of Lelia.. it was the way the fa'ae expressed it self. For Lelia that might just felt like her own ideas, or perhaps it was the whisperings in the breeze. There was a faint smell of sour milk a few meters from Lelia.
The fa'ae glanced to Talia in her mm child form. Damn it if Tiril was here that little bug could have teased Talia .. The fa'ae dipped the finger in the milk.. a drip and drop .. The door was opened from one of the buildings.. and the old lady called out* "Lelia.. was that ye?"
: says to ALL:.... -waiting sitting by atree and huffs the girl was slowly moveing for the forest there. looking up at the other fa'ae she grumbled softly waveing it off abit tryingto think of what to do now witht he help of the otehrs she hoped it was goignto be quicker but then nymph where rather sudden thigns not likeignto wait for anything, even when they should-
: says to ALL:.... ~Needed, Lelia should go, the man could come back another time, it was no desperate need. But this little girl is hurt and going the wrong way. Lelia should keep walking into the trees and follow the little girl. The thought was broken mid-step when she heard her name spoken by a familiar voice. Turning back to look at the house and the lady that was there Lelia smiles softly gesturing towards the woods.~
“Call you call your son? There’s a little girl here who looks injured, I need to tend the stew…”
~The stew, that was going to burn. Lelia was thinking far too much to be seduced by the thoughts of running away. She needed to go back. It was easy to think that while she was turned away from the child, but once she looked back to the little girl. Once her gaze had turned to look over to the child again the stew was pushed out of her thoughts in favor of running away.~
: says to ~Lelia Stromfeld~ Look p:.... *The old lady stood there with the door open.. ponder over your words* "a girl, here how?..when?" *She seem to take a few steps out when ye said thus about her son.. She nodded, mm well and ye could hear she called out for the son. The sour milk become strong there for a moment, a claw touched the chin* "next time, dance.. dance with...ussss" *The expression trickled down like heated honey over ye shoulder.. slipped under the dress.. But there was non there.. a twig was shivering as if ye had accidently touched it in your turning.. perhaps it was that that had brushed ye chin.. a gentle breeze played through the hair, perhaps that was what ye felt.. oh the stew.. or was it really so.. could it been... was the milk bowl gone?**
Talia:: *The fa'ae grin and walked toward ye with teh bowl of sour milk, oh it did really smell good.. "Isn't it fun, I have seen that monkey struggling before.. there is a a wish and yet something that hold back" *The fa'ae found the very interesting indeed. This game would be long, it would someday drag Lelia to a ring, there would be times when she would be in Annwfn and having the best or the worse time ever.. only to wake up in her own bed, or where ever she went to sleep, unsure if it was all a dream or not, till she see her muddy feet. Or finds her dress be tearing, or sad, hollow, angery something of no obvious reason.. oh the game was on and it would play a long long time.. *
