I have memories.
I was different from most children.
I could remember where I had come from.
I could remember the journey.
I traveled through the stars. Through the warm winds and mother earth.
Because unlike other children.
I had been born with my eyes open. Ever curious about life and the world I had arrived in.
The humans would say I was intelligent.
A Genius at birth, but my birth parents would call me a mistake!
My Sire and his wife were full blooded Fairies.
The Guardian of the Forest.
The most powerful Fairy of nature in the land and his lovely bride, an equally powerful water nymph.
They had expected me, their first born child, to be equally as powerful and as unearthly beautiful as they were.
Oh, I was lovely enough no doubt about that. The humans had often said that they had never seen or heard of a more beautiful baby. But I will get to that later.
My parents never saw that though. They didn't see that I knew what they were talking about and that I could understand everything that was happening around me.
They only saw that I looked so Human!
I didn't have wings, or horns, or pointed ears. I didn't have flowers growing out of me, or a tail. I didn't even have different colored skin or hair.
In their eyes, I was a perfectly normal human mortal.
My sire was angry at first. He accused his wife of being with another man.
But that wasn't true. I knew my sire when I saw him and the fairy shouting at the frighten nymph was definitely him. It was his seed that gave me life.
Once his bride convinced him of the truth, that I was his offspring, he was even more angry.
I can't remember everything that he said, but I remember words like disgrace, pathetic runt, and parasitic worm.
I think those were the most kind.
After insulting and yelling at me. My sire calmed down enough to start thinking of plans to...
To get rid of me.
His wife wanted to have me killed, but even with his great desire to be rid of me. My sire did not want to have me killed, and have such worthless blood soil his hands as he put it.
One of his servants gave him the idea to give me away to someone else to raise.
My sire sent out messengers to find a human couple to take me in.
It looked to me as if Fate had this all planned.
When the messengers came back, they claimed to have found a human woman who had just given birth to a baby girl.
But unknown to the woman, her baby died shortly after birth while she was sleeping and her husband was away.
It was perfect in my sire's opinion.
All his servants had to do was take and bury the dead baby, then put me in it's place.
Having given birth alone in the middle of the night, the human woman most likely was too exhausted to get a good look at her child.
My Sire said that she wouldn't know the difference, and they would be free of me without having to spill any blood.
And so it was, I found myself being carried by one of my sire's dryads to my new home and family.
I was placed in a strange one room house in a basket, then roughly covered up in a blanket.
Then they were gone.
I was curious about what was to come, but it could wait till the morning so I fell asleep.
When morning did come, I awoken by gentle caresses and soft coos.
I opened my eyes, and saw her.
The human woman that was to be my new mother.
She was beautiful, to me she was even more beautiful than the water nymph who gave birth to me.
She had dark, silk-like hair, warm brown eyes, and a happy smile that seemed to be contagious.
When she saw that I was awake, the smile seemed to intensify as she lifted me out of the basket.
She rocked me, gave me delicious milk, and couldn't seem to control herself when it came to giving gentle kisses all over my face.
I had never felt so loved.
But the true test for my new family came when my new mother's husband finally came home.
He was handsome in his own right, as far as human men were considered.
He had his hair cropped short in a style that seemed to suit him. He had a strong jaw, kind eyes, and his skin darkened from working in the sun all his life.
When he saw his wife, with me in her arms, he froze for a moment as tears gathered in his eyes before he raced across the floor only to fall to his knees right in front of us.
He stared at me for some time, before looking up at his wife who nodded at him and then looked back down at me.
At first, I thought he was like my sire. That he was disappointed in me, but when he took me into his arms and held me tight I understood.
He was crying tears of joy that ran tiny rivulets down his face. He was overjoyed to have me as a daughter.
I giggled as I reach my hands towards him, a smile stretched across his face as held me closer to his heart and gently placed his finger in my hand.
He was so big compared to me, but I knew my new father was going to be wonderful.
I had already fallen in love with my new family, and I knew we were going to be so happy together in that small house by the Sakura Tree.