Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #12 March 2015 | Page 28

You wish…“She won’t be your lab rat.” I told him,
while an equal number of my dwarf soldiers rushed
to my side to face the tall elf king. “I will take the girl
and her faerie owner to my planet so that they are protected there. We must be attentive in case Gaia chooses to speak through this girl again in the future.”
When Shenayalan saw that taking the girl was impossible he decided to challenge me. “And this is very
noble of you… how can I be sure that you won’t study
the girl for your own benefit?”
The elf king and I were busy standing our ground and
looking at each other with the distrust we had felt for
generations when the human interrupted us.
“I am to be returned to my mother on Earth.” The
small girl spoke again in a trance as the faerie kings
and all others looked at her. “I must… organize some
things there and I can only do that the right way if I
am on the planet I came from.”

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Irvina looked at the girl with sadness. “But Chéri…”
“You will put me back in my mother’s house and take
away the changeling you left there. You will erase my
mother’s memory of all the time she spent with the
changeling and you will give her the memories of our
time together instead. You will do that or all faeries
will regret it.” After saying that the girl pointed her
hand at a big decorative ornament hanging from the
ceiling and set it on fire.
Irvina had no other choice, but to return the human
girl to her mother and to give the most precious of her
memories away. Shenayalan announced he would keep
observing the girl from afar. I also decided to keep a
watch on the girl not only to prevent him from taking
her away again from Earth, but also to know what
would become of her. Now not only me, but all faeries
suspected that on the seemingly peaceful blue planet lay a dormant power we should better not meddle
with.