✓ 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 | E. Nelson [shiloh and bros]

𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 02

When Ella next opened her eyes, she was sleeping in a light pink room, the bedsheets under her soft as a could. The door opened with a soft click, instantly putting Ella on guard. One of the five that came through the arxis, walked in to the room. She was the only girl of the five,  and she had light brown hair, held down by a teal flower crown. 

The girl came and sat beside Ella, not making a single noise. Ella opened one eye, looking at the girl, who was staring down at her hands. She had teal butterflies painted as eyeliner, and she was wearing a teal tulle dress. The girl looked up, feeling Ella's eyes on her. 

"You're awake." She said softly, adjusting the pillows for Ella to sit up. "You were asleep for quite some time. Going through the arxis reluctantly took quite a lot out of you."

"Who are you?" Ella asked immediately. "What do you want with me?"

The girl stood up, waling across the room to stand in front of the bed. "I will tell you everything. The entire truth. But I must ask, please do not interrupt me."

Ella nodded, sitting up. 

The girl breathed in deeply. "My name is Lyla. And I'm a fairy."

Ella cocked an eyebrow, but remained silent. "Four hundrer years ago, the golioth ate half the restaurant rubble before the master cooks were able to feed it the right delicious food to satisfy it's appetite. And it won't eat the same dish twice. On this raelo, there are four types of residents."

"Monsters, Mermaids, Goblins, and Fairies. To satisfy the golioth's hunger, the master cooks needed to feed it five types of food. The four of the residents, and last one was human food."

"My mother was head chef of the restaurant." Lyla continued, "She and her colleagues made the four food groups well in advance, but they didn't have the recipes for the human food. All they needed was a cookbook."

"Since they had quite some time, my mother made her way to your raelo to ask for a cookbook, but the woman she met wasn't willing to give it up. She asked for something in return. A daughter. So my mother, after tremendous thought and regret, handed over her eldest daughter, who at that time was only three. She was adopted by the human woman, who, in exchange, handed over the cookbook."

Ella nodded, as Lyla continued. "My sister was named Elizabeth and my mother requested that her name was not changed."

Ella looked up, surprised, and she spotted some tears in Lyla's eyes. "My mother cast a spell on Elizabeth, making her appear human, hiding away her fairy powers."

"But two years ago after, my mother passed away, and I was left alone. I vowed to find my sister, and now I finally did. You're my sister, Elizabeth, and one of the fairies."

Ella stared at Lyla in shock, before she shook her head. "I wasn't adopted."

"Yes, you were. Because here, a ten years are like one year on your raelo. So when you went to the human world, you were, in their years, not even one."

Ella stared at her, as she continued. "And now, it's finally time you unseal your powers. I know it's hard to leave behind everything you had on that raelo, but at least, for a few months, you must live here, if you wish to return one day."

Ella nodded, "How do we unseal my powers?"

"Quite a simple spell, really." Lyla said with a smile, raising her wand. Ella's world went black again, and Lyla smiled to herself, finally happy to have her elder sister back.