"What the hell?" Adam whispered. The little girl hadn't even cringed at the sight of iron, nor the spray of holy water. Could they have been wrong? But no, the readings of Fae magic were at an all-time high in the house, so there had to be something going on.
"Is it the mother?" asked his partner, Jeffery. Changelings were, more often than not, girls. Faeries found it much easier to pretend to be them, simply because of the femininity stereotypes that they fit into.
"No, another hunter would have found her by now. It has to be the girl." Grim determination set into Adam's face, as he steeled himself to kill a seemingly innocent child, as he had done so many times before.
The shadows twisted as if they were being tortured, and from behind the girl walked a perfect replica of her, Identical down to the smallest visible detail. That is, apart from the murderous expression she sported, unnerving on her angelic face.
"What the hell? Jeff, please tell me you see this" Adam said, taking a step back to process what just happened.
"Looking for me?" she asked, head tilting to the left like some mockery of a puppy. Her voice was an almost perfect copy of the other girl's, but seemed layered, like a thousand people speaking at once. It pulled them in like a siren's song, only it promised no riches or forbidden desires, just pain and despair.
"Felicity, darling, are they scaring you?" she turned to the girl hunched in the corner. The first child shook her head, not taking her eyes off the men.
"Don't worry, Sia's got you, just close your eyes and ears, and whatever you do," her eyes darkened "Don't look." Her head swiveled almost 180° to glare at the hunters. She strolled lazily towards them, as if it was just another day, while both hunters, despite the seasoned professionals they were, felt their hearts momentarily stop in fear.
"Now boys, you've seen plenty of angry faeries before, yes?" terrified, the men nodded. "Well, I bet you've never seen one with something to fight for."
It was almost comical, a tiny little girl in a blue dress threatening two men more than twice her size, laden with dozens of weapons, or it would have been, had the situation not been so dire.
After all, as those men would soon find out, the Fae are an entirely different race and hold power that no Myrtos could even begin to comprehend.
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~Lila, Cassidy, & Suri
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The Faerie's Gambit
FantasyFaeries exist. They replace children with their own and keep the human babies for themselves. One girl (Felicity) is somehow left behind, raised with her changeling (Siofra), who she views as her sister. Changelings see the world differently than hu...
