Dryad

Kiddnaping

My curiosity could not leave me alone. Regardless of Celestina's warnings, I wanted to see the centaur again. I took my pot, put some apples in it just in case and headed into the forest:

-What are you doing?-Celestina spoke sternly and in front of my face:

-I clearly told you not to go deep into the forest. That centaur wandered over to us and that time you were lucky.-she pouted and tried to chase me back, but she didn't quite succeed in her intentions.

I continued to go further through the forest regardless of the annoying clucking of an angry fairy. What do I have to lose? Besides life, of course? I'll either get kicked in the head or meet a new friend. Celestina flew after me either out of concern or out of curiosity as to how exactly I was going to die, but she still decided to pout all the way because I am "careless" and "I let curiosity kill me".

It didn't take long for us to meet the odd horse again. This time the centaur saw me before I could surprise him, but he seemed unusually calm considering our last encounter. He looks so young and interested in my appearance to me, but by no means lost. Either he's come to explore territory that isn't his or he just likes to come and look at fairies now and then and I got in his way, but I don't like what the bow and arrows around his chest imply. His long blond hair was styled with a few braids, shells and pretty stones although messy as if he had never combed it as well as his white tail and long hair around his hooves. So young, so beautiful, so handsome for what he is:

-You know that they are violent and kidnap the girls they like?-Celestina asked me worriedly as if I were silly:

-I hope you brought those apples to throw them at him.-she sounds so worried, but I just want to comb him and give him a sugar cube.

Celestina hid behind me and I'm quite sure that she was completely ready to run away and leave me if this guy hit me with his hoof even once, but I didn't want to leave. I took one of the apples from the jar and held it out in front of him, hoping that he would take it as an invitation to a friendly gathering. He slowly walked up to me and with each closer step he seemed bigger and stronger, but I was surprised by his calmness. I wouldn't be so calm if someone rode me like that. He accepted my apple, then bent down and knelt down on his front legs to examine and smell me. Now I feel interesting in a slightly different way. He said something to me in that stupid language of theirs that I don't understand and caressed my cheeks:

-Congratulations. You're interesting to him even though you look like you've been burned alive. Which you were.-she mentioned to remind me why I avoid looking at my reflection.

I stroked his soft long ears which he obviously liked and he leaned against me. A friendly meeting, I thought, until it got a little less friendly. He hugged me, or grabbed me to put it better, and lifted me into the air, which startled both me and Celestina, and then without much thought he took me with him:

-Klarissa!-Celestina called me as if that would help and stayed behind us probably in fear that she too would get hurt if she tried to save me.Well, this is an inconvenient outcome.