Sweet Fox

The Human Condition

The sun is going down. Good.

The sun, is very, very jealous.

She, Sol, did this to Sweet fox.

I better tell you all a little background here.

She, the sun, claims to be the prettiest thing in the solar system, and yeah...yeah, shes probably right. But she doesn't want you to peek at her and compare her to anything else.

So, what she does, if you look at her and see what she really looks like, she pierces your eyes. Sol, lives in the hot tempestuous core of the sun, and sometimes, she appears, to dance and swim upon the hot surface.

The rivalry between her and Luna, of the moon, is terrible. The moon says she offers light too, and you can stare at her all night long, she doesn't mind. Her love will reflect back upon you as she reflects the light of her adversary, while they are locked in their deadly celestial dance.

Luna, is not a jealous mistress.

This is the thing. This fox we all call Sweet Fox, he was a Sprite, and used to have wings. He would fly up, as close as he dared to the sun, and she would be soo excited that he was there, but she didn't appreciate his little trips to the moon.

He would sit on the Lunar surface, and listen to the music of the spheres. She would sing him stories, and they would converse for ages. The moon told him, that if he could complete a set of ten labours, then the woman within the moon could appear, though this is only possible at night. Her humming through the cold, baron planet was enchanting, much like the steady notes sung by Sol.

Sol and Luna fought terribly over the attentions of the sprite, and he naively oblivious. He felt his time and attentions were his to gave and...

Oh wait! I see sweet fox is having some difficulties..

He is feeling sick and has curled up under a tree. I know what's about to happen. As soon as the moonlight hits him, the shade will start and he will become human.

Ohh no...

"Sweet fox! Are you okay?"

He is struggling to stand, and the forest floor hurts his bare feet. He is disorientated as the curse of shade floods through his veins.

Aaand, hes being sick again.

I try not to make fun of his lack of colour, but when I do, he calls me firework...and that hurts my feelings!

"I no longer hear it.." came the soft voice of the albino man.

"Hear what?" I asked.

"The melody of the night, all the voices of all the forest. It's so silent! I nearly can't stand it!" He says as he grabs his head and falls back to the ground.

"Because you have human ears again! You've spent too much time as a fox!" I kindly reminded him, watching his expression of displeasure back.

"I know, I know... Now I have to wonder these lands. Cursed by one mistress and ignored by the day, and isolated from the other...who can not even see me down here." He said as he looked up at the moon.

"She does see you! But you have been permanently separated by the curse of shade, and this...oxygen rich atmosphere. I don't know about you, but it really goes to my head..." I stopped when I noticed that he was walking off, "Hey! Get back here! You're disoriented, cold and...butt naked!"

"I hear something, from the east!" The man said excitedly.

"Don't you think you should be working on a way to lift the shade? Keeping in mind all the caveats to lifting it, rather than going on a flight of fancy through the wood?" I asked him but I can see that hes not going to listen to me.

Eventually we reach a cottage on the outskirts of a human village. It's by a brook which ofcourse, he wants to bathe in. I myself, dive into the water to warm it for him as he washes his long white hair, then just sits in the water, eating hazelnuts, until I see he turn to look in the other direction.

I can see that he's interested in a light that's turned on in the cottage, and I can see a girl going about her business. The kitchen does look warm, and theres a pie in the oven too!

I know that this maybe a good opportunity to get Sweet fox what he really needs. Shelter, food, warmth. I could seize the humans body for a short period of time in order to interact with the physical realm, but that will end up knocking me for six, and cause me a great deal of down time.

Aww hes still staring at the window. Hes so easily amused. He loves lights and vibrancy. I often worry because a human is not going to understand.