Sunset

Story by Gypsy Cross on SoFurry

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It was morning when the girl set out, a pack upon her back, a ticket in her hand on her eighteenth birthday the fae female's devotion to her parents was over. Her wings fluttered, eyes dripping a tear as she looked back at her home for the last time, she tied up her boots, tightened the dainty skirt about her waist, tugged down her shirt, and set out for adventure

The world outside the city walls was huge, much larger than she imagined, at two and a half feet everything was huge, she guessed. Walking by trees, flowers, peaceful animals, and little puddles she felt alive for the first time in her life, her silver hair flowing behind her in a breeze that smelled of rotting wood , water, and freshly downed rain.

Curiosity was her guide through the woods, she stumbled and searched and touched and prodded. Mind reeling with possibilities and floating with "ifs" and "huhs" she kept trotting along her path, chittering to herself to keep herself busy while her mind wandered farther than her feet.

About an hour she walked, aimlessly, trying to find the reason for her existence, like the common adult fae but was distracted quite easily from her journey. It was a journey that would take her to the ends of the earth and eventually she'd come back a woman. It would be great as so many of the adults in her city told her.

The world was a sensory overload, her fingertips running along this and that, roughness, silkiness but she found something else... it was coarse and soft... at the same time, a growl emitting from this texture. Bear.

She turned, the tiny fairy scared for her life, she had never met anything so large in her life and by the looks of the brute it was indeed male. Her eyes widened, she had read that fear was food for animals so she didn't think about running, frozen to the spot and staring like an idiot.

Four more growls, approaches of other hunters, she whipped around, her hair slashing the bear's leg , the metal slicing. Wolves! Oh lord what had she done! She had killed herself, found herself in a trap she couldn't escape from! The world was spinning around her as blood flew, the creatures fighting to the death. Then the world went black and she hit the floor.