Fairies In Neath

FAIRIES IN NEATH 2

Rob and Mr Darcy set off towards the woods where the latter loved sniffing and snuffling around in the undergrowth. It was after some half an hour of sniffing and snuffling, when Mr Darcy had also had a rather large poo, that Rob, now carrying the poo-bag, decided they would head for home. It was at about this time that Mr Darcy usually started to get tired and so Rob ended up carrying him home. It was quite cold and was getting dark with the stars just starting to appear overhead. They were almost out of the woods when Rob heard a strange sound that came from behind them. It sounded like someone opening a 20 foot wide packet of crisps. Rob turned to look behind him and saw a bluish glow coming from behind a tree to his right. The air seemed to crackle and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up – then to Rob's consternation the glow started approaching Mr Darcy and him.

Now Rob was well into his UFOs and alien abduction theories and in this crystal-clear moment of terror he was now convinced that they were going to be abducted. Bizarre thoughts raced through his mind, the strangest being whether there would be anywhere on the UFO to put the poo-bag; surely they must have bins with the technology available to them. The glow came right up to them and in sheer panic Rob looked at Mr Darcy in his arms but the pooch was either asleep or unconscious. Then the blue glow slowly dimmed and he was able to make out a little figure floating in the air. It didn't look like ET or have the big dark eyes of a Grey; in fact, to Rob's amazement it looked like Tinker Bell from Walt Disney's Peter Pan or a coloured version of one of the Cottingley Fairies that he'd seen pictures of.

Trembling with fear, Rob stuttered and stammered out words '...is this one of my episodes again?...am I hallucinating?...are you real?'

The 'fairy' seemed to examine Rob and said 'I'm as real as you are. Look, wait a moment you'll feel better after this.' And so saying there was what can only be described as a golden emanation that flowed from the little creature and which engulfed Rob and Mr Darcy. At this moment, all the terror, fear and doubts of Rob dissolved and he was left with a relaxed and warm feeling and he just accepted that he was communicating with a real fairy.

Rob couldn't see the fairy actually talking to him but was aware of her words suddenly appearing in his mind. 'I am a fairy and my name is Gen. Just go home now and I will speak to you again when you are in your bedroom.' At this, Rob turned round and set off towards home carrying the sleeping dog.

By the time Rob had made it home, checked that Mr Darcy was okay, had some tea and toast, watched the news and generally relaxed in his normal environment he had rationalized away the appearance of the fairy. As far as he was concerned it had been the latest, very realistic but hallucinatory episode of a series of such episodes he had suffered over the years. He switched the TV off, went upstairs, wished his mother goodnight and entered his bedroom. Just after he had closed the door Gen the fairy appeared before him again.

There followed more golden emanations from the little creature washing over Rob to calm the latter's terrified reaction to her appearance. 'Will you just accept that I'm real and get over it,' she said with an air of exasperation.

Rob was visibly relaxing and sat on his bed. 'Sorry about that, I'm okay now.'

The fairy dimmed her glow and settled to rest on a table by the side of the bed. 'This is where I give you the big explanation for why I have appeared before you. I take it that you are wondering about that.'

'Yes, yes, the thought is somewhere in my head,' Rob vaguely replied.

Gen rested her little hands on the table and said 'Well the short answer for my appearance before you is that you are a particularly sad, psychologically damaged, person who is struggling to live his life with any direction at all. Would you agree?'