"I can't believe you do that all the time" Pacey, said walking slowly into the room. Gingerly he rubbed his back as he slowly lowered himself into a chair.
"Well if it any consolation Pace we are all sore." Joey told him coming into the room as well.
"Lynnie," Johnny yelled as he ran into the
room, "Uncle Maxim says you have to take me riding tomorrow since I missed
it today."
A collective groan rose from the Capeside crew as
Faylinn nodded with laugh. "Go help Win and Martha set the table."
Once he left Jack broke the silence that fell over
the group. "Do remember what happened the last time we sat around a fire?"
"Ghost stories," everyone but Dawson answered at once.
"I don't know about you, but I am not in the
mood to sit her and compare scary instances in our lives again," Joey said
snuggling into Pacey's arms.
"Well, this house does have plenty of stories to
it, but the one I like the best os the fairy tale," Robert said coming
into the room. "We need a new idea besides the last Carver to the barn
has to put the horses away," he told her as he sat next to Jack on the
floor.
"Fairy tale, about this place?" Jen asked wondering if she had heard right, "tell it to us Robert please?" she asked him.
"Faylinn tells it better."
Five pairs of eyes turned to her each asking for
the story. Pretending to heave a sigh she curled her legs under her.
"Win, Johnny," she yelled, "I am going to tell the story."
The Fairy Tale:
Time is a human invention. The fairies do not live by it all the passing of the register only and even then not as a marker or a year, a new celebration to be had instead. Avalon has always been there home since time began.
Manderly has always been a base in the human world for fairies their circles litter the private gardens, turning to pure silver in the moonlight. King Oberon himself sanctified the portals here in a beautiful ceremony that turned the sky gold.
Soon fairies spent years and years in the mortal world, living lives then returning to Avalon to regain their magical strength and fairy form before retuning again to live as a human for a time. Some would marry humans and create a family; others would bring a love from Avalon if they had found theirs.
However, Queen Titania, was unhappy with the fact that wizards who were half fay kept interfering in the world. She threw a fit forbidding fairies and humans to have families even threatening to close Manderly's circles to all but the royal families.
It was during this fit that Meria took his first trip into the mortal world. The King's son did not feel that the rule of his mother's was fair, and followed the path of his hear to, Kayla a mortal. He loved her from the second he saw her and brought her to Manderly to live with him. Building the estate for her.
They lived together for a year before the Queen came to visit the mortal world unexpectedly. Her rage at catching Meria and Kayla in bed shook the estate like nothing else had. She demanded the death of Kayla and the child she was carrying immediately.
Throwing himself on his mother's mercy he begged her to reconsider. She stood unmoving demanding blood be poured out. Grabbing a final idea he told his mother that if she stripped him of all his fairy magic and powers he would live in this world subjected to all the punishments she would reap upon him.
Satisfied she agreed, casting a spell she robbed his fairy birth rite and spirited Kayla away. Then she turned to her son and took his powers and told him he would guard Manderly till she saw fit.
Some say that Meria, the rebellions one, still roams the halls of Manderly guarding it till his mother forgives him. Watching as fairies come and go from Manderly the ban lifted and live mortal lives.
"Was he the only one to defy the Queen?" Jen asked.
"No," Faylinn answered as Dawson pulled her into his arms, "there was another but that is a different story."
They sat like in comfortable silence for a few more
minutes before Martha's piercing scream interrupted them all.
More up soon I promise, once finals are over I will have so much more
time.