Fairy Dust

{2} The Strange Fairy Man

I wake up in a chair in front of a man like creature in a dark room. I sit up in the chair and groan, I put my hand to my forehead, It really hurts. I strain to remember what happened, but all I can remember is the girl human fairy whisking me away into nothing, after that it goes black. "I must have passed out," I thought as I rub my head, "But the fairy..." I look around the room, the walls are white and climb about 50 feet up, a burned out chandelier is hanging above me, and the room is pretty dark. In front of me is a gold throne with dark blue cushions. I scratch my head and my eyes settle on the man like creature, it's another fairy. He as sharp, blue wings and is wearing a blue, silk robe with a gold crown on his head. His eyes are a deep brown.

"Greetings, Abliqua." This fairy says. he walks over to me and touches my cheek. I swat it away and say;

"Who are you?" I say and he laughs,

"You always had that sense of humor, Abliqua."

"I don't know what you are talking about, I'm not Abliqua!" I say, discouraged. The fairy looks at me, confused.

"Of course you are!" he says and he snaps his fingers. A table appears in front of where I am sitting with the watering can that I used to free the fairy.

"How....?" I start but the fairy stops me.

"If you aren't Abliqua, then how did you open a water lock with regular water?" He paces back and forth in front of me.

"What is not "regular" water? Isn't all waterl the same?" I ask, and the fairy shakes his head.

"Not exactly, the 'not regular water' is called Fairy Water, it's the water we use here in Cothia, and it can only open those water locks," he walks to the watering can, " you can tell if the water is fairy water because fairy water has little purple specks in it." the fairy snaps his fingers again and a pitcher of water appears on the table in front of me next to the watering can. "You see, this is fairy water, you see the purple specks in it? Only fairies can see them." I squint at the pitcher and suddenly, little purple specks start to appear in the bowl.

"Oh my....." I say, speechless, "I can see them....does that mean....?" 

He nods "You're a fairy, Abliqua."

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