Rowans Choice

Chapter Sixteen- Field trip

The Oak had been busy the last few days. Andy and I had been kept away from it on the most part whilst we attended Coaching with Bell the Bulldozer. Affectionately renamed by myself for her ability to tear down our walls and force us to confront how poorly built they were.

Today though, as wedding organising was taking place within the Oak and outside of it within Olamoore, we were to take a field trip so Sycamore could have our portrait captured to send out to the kingdoms. Bell and he seemed to get on quite well when you considered they couldn't be more different. Sycamore was an angry little thing, he meant well, and made me laugh often... but he always had a stick up his butt when it came to doing everything perfectly. Bell was bouncing around with a joyous halo over her head and a desire to smile all day every day despite how it must hurt. She was currently having to suffer a three week stint of hell with Andy and I, but it did feel like we were getting somewhere... slowly. Andy and I could now be in a room without argument, and the exercise the other day where we had to look into each others eyes for three minutes... it seemed to switch something back on that had long been disconnected.

It wasn't easy to admit, that the girl I loved had made a deal to take my throne, and to take my magic from me. It played on my mind each day, but I couldn't tell her I knew. I wasn't like Andy. I still had faith in her... that she wouldn't harm me like that when it came down to it. I would give her the benefit of the doubt, that she had already thrown away that bottle and I wouldn't need to switch it. I had to let it play out, to know for sure where her loyalty truly lie. I had wobbled over it, naturally, feeling the betrayal and throwing up walls around myself, giving her what she had wanted ... but I saw the emotion in her eyes that night when I finally released her... I saw the way without words ... how she begged me to take it back.

It's a summers day. Olamoore flourished in the summer months, in normal times they brought new Fae, most fairy's born on summers nights on a full moon . The years since my mothers death there had been none, something I longed to change when Andy and I took the throne. To hear the cries once again of newborn Fae and have the joy brought back to Olamoore, it made this build up to it all, worth it.

The Oaks leaves are bright green, the nests among them are filled with baby birds as the forest lives on around us. It is funny to think that the world of nature knows we are here and lives among us, and yet out of the veil the humans who live close by know nothing of our existence here. A blackbird could sit outside my window pane, singing in the morning as I admired him and within a few moments he could flit off and fly to the nearest human village and be pillaging for worms in their back yard... living amongst both of our worlds... and seeing it all. How I envied the birds.

"What are you thinking about" Andy asked as we walked along behind Sycamore and Bell.

I turned to her and admired her crown "it suits you" i muse, finding my eyes lingering on her perfect side profile, and sighing internally.

Andy may have been a fire fairy but my goodness she looked angelic when she wasn't speaking or setting things on fire.

She reaches up and adjusts it on top of her perfectly straight hair "It will take me a while to get used to it. I'm not sure I realised just how bad my posture was until it slid off of my head twenty times just walking from my mirror to my chamber door"

"Your posture is perfectly fine. Tomorrow we must approve your ladies maids... both Cricket and Robin will assist us. They will be most helpful in dressing you and assisting you to blend in within court"

Andy rolls her eyes and sulks "Can't I dress myself"

"Your mother would agree with me when I say ... absolutely not"