[Ooc: saw the letter but was half dead from sleep and was in a haze between sleep and wakefulness 😩😭😭😭]
*hastily begins to write the response*
THANK YOU for the response and Id love to come super soon!!!!
And yeah- I've actually seen some mentions in my archives (from mammalian folk like yourself) and with the few other forest folk i know regarding what I believe is us with a variety of names!
Forest folk, forest faeries, plant people, stumpers, floral folk (we tend to blossom with age), and so on! I don't think we really have an official name though?
I'm quite small myself (3 feet minus the antennae) but we come in a range of different sizes! Oh and appearances! For example, a friend of mine and I are both rather treelike, but I find that my dear partner Frog has alot of mushroom features!
I do have a rather aquatic friend but fae doesn't look anything like your saplings do!
Some rather old art of them!
Fae doesn't seem to be similar to the vegimals at all though! Rather translucent, prefer deeper waters,(can handle salt water!!! Not very good for me sadly), still has bark like feet stumps and tips, and blossomed flowers. Their hair is quite similar to vines but they can sting rather sharply!
But as far as I'm aware, no fishy features!
Uhm I'm definitely rambling-
I'm curious though, they appear to have scales and fins which definitely are more fauna than flora- perhaps they simply look like the animal traits and are made of floral matter? Convergent evolution and what not
As for my origin, I cant say id know if I came from an egg or had a "pod" like theirs. My small pod and some close friends came to be by finding eachother later on. Not found together like the vegimals seem to have been found on the side of the octopod?
I just remember existing,personally. Although I have met some fae who found others with similar physical features to them- (the older ones tend to guide or interact with whatever younger ones we find, especially if they came from the same locations and bare similar resemblance to us)
Hsuqhdjxhd I hope this is helpful!!!
I'm uh, currently in some sort of temperate coniferpus forest in the South East of the USA... I uh. Might be like. A smidge lost- uhm. But I'm sure if I follow a nearby river I'll like TOTALLY find the ocean probably super soon-
Ahahaha yeahhhhh... totally uh... haven't been going in circles or anything 🧍♂️
Ill- ill let you know when I hit the coast!!! And uhm, figure out exactly where I am- then we can rain check and figure out where to go from there!
Uhm, take care!!! Sorry for the late response 🥺🙏🥀