Welcome to the Dark Wood Tara ;) ~~*~~ Faen of The Forest sat within her clearing, the ground underfoot a carpet of wildflowers, the trees enclosing the clearing a perfect circle. Like a ring of stones this natural shape looked as if it might have been planted thus with deliberate care and purpose. This was her place, the centre of The Forest it had significance for her. And here she sat, her lithe form astride the limb of a tree, barefoot. Her long, pale blond hair dotted with wildflowers clinging to her form and her gown a delicate web of fall leaves. She was beautiful, delicate and yet powerful. There was an undeniable arrogance and strength in her bearing. There was unfathomable intelligence in the striking silver grey eyes. Here was a Queen and a Diety. At least here it was so. In this one place, this Dark and Magical wood, the human girl was what her heritage and birth always meant her to be. She was special. And she did all for the good of The Forest. Although some thought it so, she was not an evil creature. If she was anything, she was indifferent to the will and wishes of others where they conflicted with the will and wishes of Faen. She sincerely believed that everything she did was for the good of those involved and the methods she used, although sometimes seeming cruel, were necessary. None knew where she had come from or who and what she was exactly. The spirit of the Woods had identified her as human and she was so but the humanity was a form of punishment to her parents. Faen was the product of a forbidden lust, and a love that was a sin in itself because her mother was of heaven and her father was of hell. Both were punished for their union and their offspring was doomed to humanity and cast upon the earth to thrive or die as the fates willed it. SometHer mother was unmade after bearing the child, her father cast back to hell. But her father willed it otherwise for he could not forget his love for the forbidden purity. So he escaped and found the product of his mating. He hid her for two years, searching for something that would make his daughter what she should have been. Something that would make her rise above the frail humity of his punishment. And he found The Forest and knew it must be her birthright. He felt the Spirit's desire to mother so he gave The Forest his daughter. But Faen knew none of this for the secret was long since buried in the past as she sat upon the limb of a tree and sent out her thoughts through The Forest, letting her mind touch on every leaf and twig, every beast and bird. She enjoyed the feeling of movement as The Forest changed it's location in the whisper of the wind. And then she felt it and her eyes flew open wide. "This cannot be.." But she had felt it, in her mind, body and soul. It moved through her like a shudder in the core of the earth. There was an intrusion in the Wood. The Forest had accidentally picked something up as it moved to a new destination and the something was powerful. The most disturbing thing about it was that her mind could not completely penetrate the small glade that had been trapped inside her Wood. Where all power was muted within The Forest, Faen's power was muted in that one small area which had been snagged into her Forest something that had never happened before. And there was a creature inside, something female. Faen shuddered at the intrusion, at the foriegn magic trying to assert itself in her domain. "Abomination," Faen whispered. ~~*~~ JaxyS :) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe dragontales" in the body of the message.
