Elona of the Great Green

Magenta helps her Auntie clean the dishes after lunch and watches the rain pour down from a now heavily gray colored sky. “It’s amazing!” her Auntie says while using a clean checkered towel to dry a plate covered with dainty painted flowers. “How does the weather just turn like this?” She says with a perplexed look on her face as she cranes her neck closer to the window and peers up into the large oak tree. “Why it was just sunny not more than an hour ago..it’s almost like magic.” She looks at Magenta and smiles. “What do you think?” She inquires.

Magenta gives her a warm smile. “The sky must have gotten sad.” Magenta says. “Maybe the sun hurt the sky’s feelings suddenly.” Magenta’s Auntie gives her a gracious grin. “Well I sure hope they make up soon don’t you?” “I do, but the sun is never in a hurry to admit he was wrong. I assume that the sky will weep a bit longer.” Magenta’s Auntie lets out a tiny sigh of disappointment. “I assume so.”

Magenta’s Aunt lives in the suburbs of a large Southern American city, the location is developing and families are quickly moving into the once quiet wooded paradise. Magenta’s mother and her sister, Magenta’s auntm live but thirty minutes from one another. Magenta, Scarlet and their Mother live in the city….in an urban home, so weekends are spent on Magenta’s aunt’s sprawling property.

The girl’s Mother is an artist and paints large murals for a living, she produces works for a famous art gallery in town and they live in a warehouse that has been converted into a live work space. While it is beautiful, it is in the city and near the hustle and bustle of busy lives.

Magenta and Scarlet’s Mother loves to take the girls out to the country on the weekends to experience time spent with family in nature and she herself enjoys the company of her sister and her sister’s husband.

The Great Green is a large oak tree that stands outside of Magenta’s aunt’s yard. It is over a hundred years old and has housed fairies within it since it was a young sapling. Among it’s fairy inhabitants it is considered one of the clan’s oldest and most magical trees. The Great Green is near a thickly forested wood a prime spot for new suburban development as it is uninhabited by humans and covers a vast acreage prime for building.

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Elona and Henry Alan are considered Dryad’s or Tree Spirits. Nature spirits are thought to be healing for the earth, magical in their ability to become invisible to the human eye and musical as their sweet songs can ring throughout the forest. In fact often when one finds oneself walking alone in the forest, it is a dryad’s voice they hear floating on the wind. Dryads are also known to aid lost travelers with their singing, harolding them back to safety.

Because their natural habitat is trees, Elona, whose name means Bright in Greek and Oak Tree in Hebrew, is a “bright spirit” of the Oak…or Great Green as the people of her fairy tribe call it. Being a bright spirit means that Elona, has the gift of light, and can shine very brightly aiding the light of the moon.

Fairies sleep in hammocks seen above, often crafted of leaves, flowers and nutshells they are spun with silk or spider’s thread and are often tucked away out of sight. Many fairies sleep near one another for safety and comfort.

Fairies eat healthy foods found in nature. Human processed foods are actually toxic to them and make them ill, therefore unlike the fly spirits who relish in the exotic pallets of human beings, fairies cannot tolerate any food that has not grown from the earth.

An old Oak, such as the Great Green, can house as many as a thousand fairy Dryads.