March 6th, 2007 : An Air of Fantasy
I cannot climb the trees. I am not nimble like the elves, and I cannot reach up into the high branches. I can walk quietly among the foliage, but even the fairies know when I am near. I sometimes scare them off, and they disappear like a puff of smoke. Other-times, if I am quiet, they continue to dance about, even though they know I am watching. Only when I move do they then run off, and leave me in the dark. I hate to make them run off, and stop having the fun I know they are having, but I cannot help it. I love watching the fairies, for they are so beautiful. When I go and watch them, I sit very still, and try not to breathe loudly, and I sit quietly and watch. But after I sit for a bit, my nose starts to itch, or my leg starts to cramp, and I carefully go to move so I become comfortable, but it always will scare the fairies away.
Sometimes when they leave me in the dark I cry. To be a thing that scares such beautiful creatures away, is a sad thing. If it wasn’t for me, they could be so happy. I think I am the only one who scares them off. I have sometimes wondered if there were ever more people who scared fairies off, but since I cannot know for sure I think it must only be me.
I never tell anyone about the fairies I see. I am afraid they would also want to see the fairies, and then they would scare the fairies off for good. Then I wouldn’t be able to go and watch the fairies, because they would be gone. I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t go and watch the fairies. Somedays I go and fall asleep watching the fairies, and when I wake up I sometimes find a small basket next to me. The basket is filled with a sweet bread, almost like honey. I savor the bread on my tongue when I eat it, for it is good, and fills me up. It is a small bun, that fills the small basket, and I always wish I had more. The fairies are very generous in leaving me any bread at all, however, so I feel bad that I am so ungrateful.
I almost wish that I could be a fairy. I would not be a very good fairy though, so I am glad that I am not. I would not want to disgrace the fairy name.