#fae legacy

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I hadn't realized that the human world had pixies, until I woke up to find my garden absolutely infested. They are such mischievous little sprites, I couldn't help but enjoy a bit of time with them before encouraging them to leave my garden.

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While I was enjoying some time with the pixies, I overheard Ffulcone, Ewicman's father, yelling, to my shock. I thought their relationship was good, especially since Ewicman always spoke about his parents positively, but from the sound of their argument...

Ffulcone is unhappy that his one and only child refuses to continue the family business, and instead is becoming a simple farmer. It sounded like it was an argument they had had multiple times before, however, and Ewicman took it all in stride.

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My name is Áine Caille, and I am a sídhe; mortals know us by many names, but a common one is fairy. Up until recently, I was living in the land of the fae, which also is known by many names. I have seen 20 summers.

The land of the fae is a wonderful place, where we never age, and free from the concerns of mortals, like currency and death. We have but a few rules, and if we follow those, we will be fine.

But I wasn't satisfied. I don't know how many mortal years I have been alive (are they the same as in the land of the fae? are they not? I do not know), but eventually I grew curious about the lives of those in the human realm. Then once my curiosity began to grow, my interest in... death, began.

You see, fairies may visit the human realm as much as we wish, as long as we don't stay here. But I decided to stay for extended periods of time, and conduct a sort of macabre research. I made myself blend in, and explored human settlements. And I witnessed death.

So much death.

It was so different than I thought it was. Actually, I hadn't even thought of what it might be. I knew it existed, but until I saw it first hand, I didn't understand. It was a snuffing out of life; it was a removal of all that the fae realm stood for.

And I paid for my curiosity. Fairies are not supposed to understand death, because it changes us, fundamentally. I have heard a rumor that fairies are the souls of children, and if that is the truth, perhaps that is why the King of the Fae keeps the truth about mortality away from us. Because the knowledge awakens a memory buried deep within our very being.

So the King punished me for seeking forbidden knowledge by banishing me, and removing my immortality. My sisters, my only family, refused to let me go alone, and begged the King to allow them to come with me. To remove their own immortality.

And so here we are. Me, and my sisters. Stuck in the human realm, in a small village called Innisgreen, in a land called Ireland.

I have no knowledge of what humans do to survive, other than eating, sleeping, and working for currency. Since fairies do not need to eat, my first priority is finding a way to earn currency. Unfortunately, as far as I am aware, women in the human realm are not allowed to be anything, so I must resort to thievery. I have always been good at stealing things, even before my banishment, so it shouldn't be a problem. My only other option is to perform music, but I'm unsure if humans have the same instruments as fairies.

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The girls have already made some friends, while I have been attempting to find a husband so we can afford to build a proper house. Or a hut, at the very least.

Nuala met a young woman named Lece Hansart, who seems like a nice enough girl, and Sisuile met a young man named Randulf. I kept a close eye on them when I could, knowing that young women and men together were to be chaperoned, but I knew it wasn't something I needed to worry about. Generally, they all met together.

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Fairies prefer to dwell in the here-and-now, than in the past or the future, and I am no exception. So once we found a plot of land that seemed suitable, we decided it was a good place to put down roots.

The pond was already there, and that is why we chose to stay. Anywhere with water was a necessity - fairies didn't need to eat food the way a human does, but we did need water. For bathing, if nothing else.

Each of us girls set up something different. I used some magic to grow us a protected place to grow some plants, while Nuala grew us a box for human correspondence, and Sisuile added some swings to an existing tree, before turning an existing stump into a perfect fairy house. It was already nearly there, but she further hollowed it out and added some necessary furniture, such as beds. We could have slept on the ground, but that would provide no protection from the elements.

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"Come, this place looks decent," I beckon to the two behind me, following me like ducklings to their mother.

Why they still followed me, even though I was the only one doomed to this curse of mortality, a future with only one conclusion, I would never know. I longed to tell them to stop, go back, this punishment was not meant for them. If they came with me, that would be it for our noble line of Caille.

But I couldn't bring myself to do it, for I am nothing if not selfish.

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Our home underwent a lot of changes after our marriage. My sisters still have no beds, but they stay in the fairy house - Ewicman thinks they sleep on the ground inside the sheltered garden, and I nurture that delusion.

Inside our hut, Ewicman and I have the absolute necessities for human existence. Not much else, but we will expand it.

We also changed the look of the garden's shelter; Ewicman sanded down the tree trunks I'd grown to hold up the straw roof, and commented on how we really chose the perfect place to build a garden, with trees having grown so uniformly. It was hard not to say that it didn't come that way, but it's not something you can casually tell a human. "Oh no, the trees didn't grow that way, I made them sprout so we could build the shelter," is a sentence that only makes sense if you know about magic.

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All three of us sisters decided that we wanted to come back to visit this place once more, at a later date. Each of us for different reasons.