Elona of the Great Green

Elona peers through the trees to see Magenta speaking gallantly to Scarlet. She leans over as far as she can to get a better look, craning her neck around a thick brown leaf, she extends her body as far as it can reach. Fearful that using her wings will reveal her again, she holds on with all of her strength.

She knew the Fairy King would surely have words with her again if she were to ever make contact with another human. Elona laughed a little to herself at the thought of his red face and his angered scowl when he discovered that she had accidentally met with Magenta, the girl who sat below the Great Green. “She has been sitting there for years”, Elona explained. But the King wanted none of Elona’s reasoning, what she did was wrong and against fairy laws and had Elona not been his very own daughter, he may have considered casting her out to live with other fairies farther off in world.

While Elona thought the fairy rules to be out of date and silly, she had agreed, even crossed her wings three times and promised to the Fairy King that she would never ever ever do it again.

Elona inched ever so much closer to the edge of the tree branch… “Careful!” Henry Alan, Elona’s best friend, yelled. “You’ll fall!” Elona smiles at him, “No. I’ve got a good grip!” she replied. “You shouldn’t be out there,” he continues cautiously. “Oh don’t be silly Henry Alan, you’ve no sense of adventure.” Pouting Henry Alan hides himself further back in the tree as Elona continues to listen to Magenta’s tale. “And you have no sense of reason.” Henry Alan pouted.

“You see, Scarlet. It was on that day, that Elona the Fairy Spirit of the old oak tree, landed in my hands.” Magenta opens her hands to her little sister. “She was no bigger than my palm.” Scarlet stares with wide and excited eyes into Magenta’s hands “Are they really really real? Jenny?”, Scarlet questions. “As real as my hand is real. She had tiny wings and fire red hair.”

Another burst of wind blows the grass and rustles the leaves overhead. The sky which was bright and sunny starts to take on a gray hue as clouds form above. From the distance, Magenta and Scarlet’s mother calls out. “Girls, it looks like it’s about to rain, better come on inside.” Magenta looks back at her and flashes a smile. “Just one more minute, mother.” Their mother gives a playful grimace. “We’ll be having lunch soon, you girls have a few more minutes, I don’t want you drenched in the rain.” Magenta waves at their mother as she walks inside the house, lowering her voice as if her mother could actually hear it, Magenta continues her story.

“It was a windy day just like this one, when all of a sudden…”

Elona strains even harder to listen, stretching her tiny body to the very length of the branch peering through the crack of a large oak leaf.

“There was a cracking sound.” Magenta exclaims.

A great gust of wind blows and suddenly Elona begins to lose her grip. “ELONA!” cries Henry Alan, as the wind whips around the tree and Elona’s grip slips…

Scarlet lets out a scream, grabbing her head. “Magenta! Something just fell in my hair.”

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