Many years ago, I can't even try to guess…
It was a fairly large city where a twenty-year-old girl was running from one place to another like a human humming-bird. She was decked out in feathers and bright colors, which added to the illusion. "Hey Birdy, where you heading to this time?" one of the village boys teased.
"My tooth is hurting, so I'm heading to the barber to get it pulled" she told him, holding her left cheek before fluttering around a bit.
"Ok, if I may make a suggestion go to Norris, Toothiana, he has a better track record" he advised with a nod as she dashed off in the direction of the barber. A few guys' smiled and greeted the fleet-footed girl. It didn't take long for her to reach the barber's shop and sit herself in one of the chairs
"Little humming-bird, what brings you? I hope you don't want me to cut that beautiful hair of yours" he greeted running his fingers threw her long golden hair that seemed to always catch the light.
"No way, Norris!" she exclaimed.
"My tooth is hurting me. Do you think that it needs to be pulled out?"
She gestured to her mouth as the older man nodded and grabbed his tooth pulling device.
"I know this is going to be hard but stay still" he teased, reaching into her mouth. Fate was indeed a cruel mistress -that or Man in the Moon used some of his powers- but whatever it was it certainly shook the island of Atlantis to its knees. When the earthquake stopped a single beam of moonlight shined on the water, resulting in a young lady being pulled out of the water.
"Who-where am I?"
The girl looked around, keeping herself in the air by the pair of wings attached to her back. She darted around as light caught her feathers as she tried to: one, figure out who she was, and two, what the pain in her mouth was.
"Your name is Toothiana," a voice said.
She looked in quickly around her before she realized that the moon was talking to her.
"How do you know?" she asked it, but gained no response. After some time she ended up trying to find land in the vast sea. It took her a few years to remember who she was but even thousands of years later she still couldn't figure out why she had a rotten tooth.
