Solaina never meant to stray so far from her tree but she went out into the world just like her grandmother warned her not to. She wanted to see New York City just once! Just before the eroding creek bank washed her and her tree away. But then by watching the weather on her fancy new iphone she learned Home had flooded. She took the next flight she could find and ran the rest of the way Home to that wide open field where she and her tree were supposed to live.
There he was. Toppled over with grass and logs tangled all over his limbs and roots. This was the first time she had seen the red roots with her own eyes. Her fashionably torn blue jeans met the mud as she fell to weeping.
Luckily, with that fancy new Iphone her grandmother most certainly would have disapproved of came friends. They came. They tried to pull off the debris and push her tree back on his roots again but he was too heavy. One carved her a pen from his branches and several others helped her gather clippings from his wicker shoots so there could be saplings. Having friends who understood made the loss so much less painful.
Although Solaina had to finish her days out living like a human, a disgrace among dryads and fawns, she soon would have an entire forest to look out for. She also made more memories than anyone in her race and it almost made loosing the reason she was alive bearable. She felt guilty for looking on her human friends smiling, but then again... No.
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A Dryad Looses Her Tree
Short StoryA young dryad decides to venture out into the world but then tragedy strikes... She looses her reason for living and becomes a disgrace among her people. I say "Obvious Inspiration Is Obvious" because this is a picture of my friend, Tree. We've had...
