Angelina's Story
"You see sister Angelina, we are the women of the woods, and we have been around since the gods made this world. She Who First Dwelled In The Woods was our queen. She taught us how to live our lives in peace and harmony with Mother Earth, and all her creatures. She taught us how to use the plant life in ways not just for food. She taught us how to use the Earth in ways to help people. But She warned us that we must never tell anyone our secret for the humans would use it for evil. When Darkness fell upon the Earth, we continued to fight, to keep Darkness away from Light. She dressed us in blue, for that is what the Mother's skies and waters are. Because we were keepers of Light, it entered our bodies, and there in turn we turned white. Yet the Queen never did, for she walked among the humans to learn from them, to see how they treated the Mother. She always returned disgusted by them, and didn't see why we didn't just destroy them. There had to be some reason why the Mother created them. One day we found out why. There was an all war against the Darkness, and the human fought long and hard. We knew that if it weren't for the human, the Darkness would have domain over the Mother. So we helped them out, and some of us fell in love with humans. Some even mated with the humans, and if they were female, they were kept to learn of our secrets, and if they were male, then they were kept until they were old enough to be with out a mother, and young enough to not understand, or remember us. The Queen said that she needed an heir, so she too mated. She had a daughter and the daughter's name was Marguerite, and Marguerite was an odd child. She was dark skinned and no matter how long with the Light, her skin never turned white. The Sisters thought that she was a child of Darkness, but the Queen didn't want her to be killed. She mated again, and this child never turned white either. So the second child was sent off to live with the humans, so there would be no argument about who would be the heir. Marguerite spent twenty-three years of her life in service to the Mother, but then on one trip to visit the humans, she fell in love with a man named Shand. He wanted her to marry him, and she agreed. She came back to us and told her news. We begged her not to do it, but she had made up her mind. So she married Shand, and came back a year later with a daughter. The daughter was to be the new Queen, and Marguerite came back every two months, and stayed one month. She taught Kela, her daughter everything needed to keep the Mother Earth safe from Darkness.
"You see sister Angelina, we are the women of the woods, and we have been around since the gods made this world. She Who First Dwelled In The Woods was our queen. She taught us how to live our lives in peace and harmony with Mother Earth, and all her creatures. She taught us how to use the plant life in ways not just for food. She taught us how to use the Earth in ways to help people. But She warned us that we must never tell anyone our secret for the humans would use it for evil. When Darkness fell upon the Earth, we continued to fight, to keep Darkness away from Light. She dressed us in blue, for that is what the Mother's skies and waters are. Because we were keepers of Light, it entered our bodies, and there in turn we turned white. Yet the Queen never did, for she walked among the humans to learn from them, to see how they treated the Mother. She always returned disgusted by them, and didn't see why we didn't just destroy them. There had to be some reason why the Mother created them. One day we found out why. There was an all war against the Darkness, and the human fought long and hard. We knew that if it weren't for the human, the Darkness would have domain over the Mother. So we helped them out, and some of us fell in love with humans. Some even mated with the humans, and if they were female, they were kept to learn of our secrets, and if they were male, then they were kept until they were old enough to be with out a mother, and young enough to not understand, or remember us. The Queen said that she needed an heir, so she too mated. She had a daughter and the daughter's name was Marguerite, and Marguerite was an odd child. She was dark skinned and no matter how long with the Light, her skin never turned white. The Sisters thought that she was a child of Darkness, but the Queen didn't want her to be killed. She mated again, and this child never turned white either. So the second child was sent off to live with the humans, so there would be no argument about who would be the heir. Marguerite spent twenty-three years of her life in service to the Mother, but then on one trip to visit the humans, she fell in love with a man named Shand. He wanted her to marry him, and she agreed. She came back to us and told her news. We begged her not to do it, but she had made up her mind. So she married Shand, and came back a year later with a daughter. The daughter was to be the new Queen, and Marguerite came back every two months, and stayed one month. She taught Kela, her daughter everything needed to keep the Mother Earth safe from Darkness.