A First Sneak Peek at my EAH AU
She rather liked being a tree, all things considered. Her bark protected her from the elements and her roots reached into the dirt to connect with the whole forest. The woods provided sun and rain, everything she could want.
Which is why it was terribly distressing when a buzz went through the roots that there was a man with an ax. And even more so when she suddenly found herself unable to hear the rest of the forest.
The next thing she knew, she was opening her eyes (and when had she grown those?) on two humans standing in front of her.
"Who are you?" She spoke the words in a slightly raspy voice. (Words and a voice, two more things she was pretty sure she hadn't had before.)
"My name is Azure. And this is Giuseppe," the first human said. Or maybe it wasn't a human at all; she didn't think they usually had wings. "Oh! And you're… um…" she fluttered her wings and looked to the human standing next to her.
Giuseppe gave her a goofy grin. "I'm gonna call her Boobie Mc-" only to stop when he was whacked on the head by a wand.
"You can't do that. She's, like, your daughter!" Azure scolded.
"I'm pretty sure she's older than me," he complained. "How old are you?"
"19." The tree girl said. Though she wasn't sure when she had started thinking of herself as a tree girl, instead of just a tree. Or when she had started thinking at all. She wasn't sure where that number came from either, but she just felt it in her roots that it was right. (Or would have, if she still had roots. This was quickly getting frustrating.)
Giuseppe gave Azure a look as if to say 'I told you so.' and she just frowned back. "Well, we have to call her something! How about Cedar? She was carved from a cedar tree, after all."
"Yeah, that works. Welcome to being a person, Cedar! Congratulations on being the next Pinocchio."
And suddenly Cedar was even more confused. She missed her forest. This whole 'being a person' business sounded rather complex.
"No thank you. Put me back in the forest, please."
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This is one of my favorite sections I've written. It's been in my google drive for almost a year now, so I thought I'd share it. I've got lots more ideas coming... sometime. But for now, enjoy some Cedar content!