Chapter 3
Faye's POV
After solving many puzzles in Wish so I can chase after my husband to rescue him I Leave the Village and plunge into the forest though it was bright day when I entered the forest it is now the darkest part of the night I continue struggling through the forest this is not only my first time being out of Wish since when I was a small infant but this is my first time when I didn't have Tangle, Aeval, Fidget or even our daughter Lyra with me and it is also the first time I ever felt truly afraid.
After putting together a light post that had probably been broken by the last person to pass this way I get at least some light to see by and can tell the path I am supposed to follow however as I press forward it seems that the trees are determined to stop me and are constantly catching and causing holes in my dress and a number of thorns and briars have cut up my hands causing me to have to tear off strips of cloth at the hem of my dress to bandage my injuries after many more misadventures I reach the mansion where I suspect Fidget is being held.
As I enter the house I complete lots of puzzles and finally reach the room where my darling husband is and then I see her Lilith I look at her feeling betrayed once more figuring I know why she did this but still desiring to hear it from her own lips since I knew she had been one of the playmates and school chums to me and Fidget even though she was a fairy just like Fidget is so I inquire of her saying, " Why Lilith did you kidnap my husband like that did you really hate seeing me and him happy or is there more to this were you merely pretending to be his and my friends so that you could lie in wait to ruin our happiness?"
I could tell by the look on Lilith's face that my suspicion might prove false but I still needed to hear it from her own lips and after a while just when I was beginning to think I wouldn't ever get an answer from her she replied and her tone was sad almost as if she was hurt by my accusations as she said, " Faye I couldn't have been more happy for you and Fidget after all you deserve to be happy after all you had been through plus I already have a man of my own and like you Faye he is mortal, but capturing Fidget was the only way to lure you to me and the reason for this will no doubt still seem like a betrayal of sorts and for that I am truly sorry I hope one day you can forgive me…"
I could tell there was more she wanted to say but then I noticed her eyes were looking at my hands and feet that were bandaged with pieces from the hem of my dress and the tears at other parts of my dress. It was then her turn to ask the questions saying, " what happened to you Faye?" I looked down at my self and decided that the best thing to say was the exact truth so I replied saying, " Oh just a couple of trees tried tore holes in my dress and some of the briar bushes and thorn patches around the house tore my hand and feet up a bit nothing much" I tried to down play my injuries so as to not worry her not of course realizing why she had gone out of her way to lure me this close to a door way to the fairy realm don't ask how I know because the answer to the question is that mortals when they are still young and tender especially when they have been raise by fairies who had taken them in after they were abandoned are extremely sensitive to the feel of fairy magic and detect entrances as easily as breathing.
After regaining her composure she finally said, "Those injuries will have to be treated immediately." I could tell she was not going to tell me what was about to happen so I did what any woman who was still young enough to be frightened would do I backed a way from Lilith until I nearly tripped over my husband's sleeping form I then knelt beside him and clung to him crying but obviously that was just where Lilith wanted me because as soon as I was in that position she spoke a magic word and I was knocked unconscious it was probably another sleeping spell.
As I lay dreaming next to my husband I kept hoping that Tangle and Aeval would come rescue us but some how I doubt that even if they are on their way that they will be able to save either Fidget or me my fears turn my dreams in to nightmares which since Lilith is the Fairy Queen of Dreams she is no doubt watching and wondering why they are there.
Lilith's POV
After I once more have Faye deep under my sleep spell as I also have her husband I take us to the Fairy realm and directly to the Tower of Dreams where I place the two in the upper most room in the tower onto the bed and there I leave them to dream while I confer with the Dream Librarian who rules over us until the Fairy lord returns; She is wise in all lore of fairies and is the keeper of all the fairy knowledge.
I look at her and speak respectfully however not with out my voice cracking due to my sorrow saying, " I wish I had not agreed to this whole plan Faye and I were the best of friends and everything I have done and am doing feels like I am betraying her trust in me after what her mortal parents did to her do we really have the right to do what we are doing?" The Dream Librarian smiles a melancholy smile as she replies saying, " Lilith I understand what you are going through but you must remember Faye's mortal parents abandoned her in the village of Wish because they didn't want her and were hoping she would die which if it had not been for Fidget's parents she would have.
However what we are doing is for her benefit we are granting her a great gift and if a little trickery is utilized in acquiring her so she can benefit then I am sure she will forgive it when she fully understands what is going on let me ask you which would make you feel worse the one or maybe two decades of distrust from Faye knowing that in time she will come to realize that you enabled her to receive a wonderful gift and then having an even stronger friendship for it… Or keeping her trust and watching her grow old, wither and die and know that you could have prevented it but were to afraid to loose her trust?"
I looked at her and replied, " The second option would make me feel the worse but she won't gain any benefit because at this moment she needs medical treatment and she no doubt is in terror and being troubled by nightmares and there is nothing I can do to remedy that." The Dream Librarian smiled at me as she said, " I am well aware of the injuries she sustained and the terror she is indeed feeling but we can do something for that Aeval and Tangle are on their way here to help us calm her fears however we must heal the physical wounds quickly before they get here. I will head up and wash her wounds and bandage them properly with the right conglomeration of healing herbs her injuries should heal up nicely however you should wake both Faye and her husband because another thing that needs to be done before we can begin working with Faye and even letting her know the truth about what will be happening is she must get a good amount of nourishment so that her body does not react adversely to the treatment."
I looked at the Dream Librarian and replied saying , " Could you please stop referring to it as if we are treating a highly contagious disease, Faye is not sick and she is as much a person as any of us." the Dream Librarian smiled as she said, " You are indeed correct she is as much a person as any fairy or mortal are however the reason I refer to what is to come as a treatment is because there are many steps that must occur to bring her fully into our fold so the procedure is very much like a medical treatment do you understand Lilith?"
I could indeed see the truth in her words and so with out further questions I lead the Dream Librarian up to the top most room in the tower where Fidget and Faye still lay dreaming the look of fear that had been on Faye's face scant hours ago was replaced by a look of content as if her nightmare had been chased away by something I wanted to believe that she was beginning to see that her husband and her had not been harmed but taken somewhere safe to sleep but deep down I knew that was too much to hope for.
So I undid the sleep spell waking the two.
Fidget's POV
As I woke I noticed that I was next to my wife Faye but that we were not in the Village of Wish which can in my mind mean that Lilith was successful in capturing my wife using me as bait. but I at least had slept pleasantly but I was certain when my wife fully woke up she would be filled with terror but still my first job was to find out where we were so I inquired saying, "Where Are we?" It was the Dream Librarian who answered saying, " You and your wife Faye are in the Tower of Dreams deep in the heart of the Fairy realm." I then began to wonder if my wife would ever wake again for I had many times heard from mom and dad that it was relatively dangerous for mortals to be that far into the Fairy realm but then I saw my wife move as if she was indeed waking up. I hoped she would not panic but then again she had reason to panic we had both seemingly been betrayed by a friend.
Faye's POV
As I woke I realized I was still at my husband's side as I had been when I had collapsed there in the mansion Lilith had captured me in. I was still in pain from the cuts on my hands and feet that had occurred while racing through the forest. I don't know where Fidget and I are at the moment but it really doesn't matter to me what does matter is that I am in pain and I am terrified the way I react to the second thing is despite how much pain I am in I cling tightly to fidget and the next thing I do is cry normally I am stronger than that but the feeling of the betrayal of a woman I had called friend and the agony of my legs and arms are enough to break me though only a little bit. I winced a bit when my husband gently squeezed my shoulder in his usual comforting manner. I looked up at him my love for him still brightly shining. It is then that I notice that where ever we are we are not alone. I looked up and saw Lilith and a strange woman standing next to her this only made me cling tighter to Fidget. Lilith looked at me and said calmly, " Faye this is the Dream Librarian you and Fidget are currently at the Tower of Dreams in the heart of the Fairy Realm." I decided that if Lilith was telling the truth that I should be exceedingly polite so as to not upset the Dream Librarian and get on her bad side. so I put on my warmest smile and a polite and friendly nod in the stranger's direction.
the Dream Librarian smiled back at me and then spoke saying, "Welcome Faye I am pleased to finally make your acquaintance you and your husband have been brought here for a reason but before we get into that we need to get your injures healed up and get you some food in your stomach and then we will converse more about the real reason you are here when Aeval gets here." I looked at the dream librarian in shock but I was still very pleased my mother in law was coming to rescue Fidget and Me or at least that is what I thought. I had forgotten what my father in law Tangle who had also doubled as my adoptive father had told me about the Dream Librarian he had told me that she was the keeper of all fairy knowledge and recorded it all but that meant she could read thoughts too. So I was very surprised when she replied to my relieved thought saying, " No Aeval is not coming to rescue you and Fidget after all there is nothing here threatening you. You, Fidget and your daughter are in more danger in the mortal world than you are here. When you were a baby as Aeval no doubt told you…
You had been abandoned because your biological parents hadn't wanted you and had hoped you would die alone which if Aeval and Tangle hadn't found you and adopted you is exactly what would have happened.
Everyone here in the Fairy Realm see you and Fidget as family not just because you and Fidget are married but also because you had been Adopted by Tangle and Aeval so you couldn't be anywhere safer than here but while we wait for Aeval let us get your scratches cleaned and bandaged properly and get you changed from that torn ragged garment into something more suitable to your new station then we will explain the rest." I was scared and didn't wish to leave my husband's side to go with the Dream Librarian but I saw the sense in her words about getting cleaned and the minor injuries tended so I stood up shakily but Fidget was not about to let them take me anywhere at least not with out him and he said so by saying, " Hold on all this stuff may be true but if you think I would let my Faye go with you alone then you are plain out crazy I am not sure I trust that she would return to me in one piece or at all for that matter." The Dream Librarian looked shocked as she replied while pushing open a curtain that partitioned off the room while saying, "Fidget you need not fear for Faye's life. Since we are only going a few feet away from you behind this curtain where I keep medical supplies and a tub for washing and a couple towels to help her dry off then she will be returned to you fresh and clean and dressed appropriately and then together you will await food and the arrival of Aeval. Does that satisfy you?" Fidget looked at the Dream Librarian for a good few minutes before he replied, " Very well I suppose it would not do for mother to see Faye all scratched up like that." I quietly arouse and followed the Dream Librarian through the curtain as it magically shut behind us and when I was instructed I striped out of my torn and dirty dress and climbed into the tub but I was none to comfortable that the Dream Librarian didn't leave while I bathed but pottered around the room gathering large copious amounts of ointments and lotions and laid them out on a table to wait for me to get out of the bath. I meanwhile am hoping that I am not allergic to the soaps and other stuff that I have been using to wash myself as soon as I finished washing my self all over and rinsed all the soap off my skin I quickly wrapped a towel around my self. It didn't take the Dream librarian long to notice that I was ready for the next step she lead me over to a chair and began to deal with the scratches I had acquired from the briars and thorn bushes near the Mansion where Lilith had caught me. Using the ointments and other dressings to make sure the wounds would heal up really well but I was afraid that I might be allergic to many of the ointments though I knew that Aeval had no doubt at one time or another used similar ointments and remedies on me when I skinned my knee as all children do. But none the less I decided to inquire about it saying, " Do you suppose I might be Allergic to some of these ointments?" The Dream Librarian smiled and replied saying, "I highly doubt it for many of these are ointments that I noticed that Aeval used on you herself when you were small and if you weren't Allergic to them when you a child it isn't likely you will be allergic to them now." Then she went back onto the other side of the curtain and received from a new garment for me to wear and when she brought to me so I could get dressed I was hesitant to put it on for it was a rather fancy dress of much the same style that Lilith would wear and I having been raised in a village where simple clothing were the norm and the only people who wore fancy clothes were the mayor and his wife and the one or two rich folk that were in the village I mean yes Tangle and Aeval were among that group so yeah even in Wish it was normal to see them wearing some of the finery and even though I was not only their daughter in law but technically their daughter as well I suppose it would have been expected for me to dress in fine fashions as well but I chose the simple, plain and more practical dresses similar to what my other girlfriends wore. So I decide to try to request something of the same as politely as I can by saying, " That is indeed a very beautiful dress but I am used to something plainer possibly of the same style as the dress I arrived here in, is it possible that you could find me something a little plainer and not so high fashion?"
The Dream Librarian looked a little surprised at my request and decided to inquire as to my upbringing saying, "Why would you want something plain and drab are you not the adopted daughter of Aeval and Tangle? Are you not the woman married to Fidget?"
I was not shocked and replied, "Yes on both counts and when I was a child and growing up I wore the outfits that that was expected of a child of two of the village's richest residents but when I married Fidget and started a family I traded in the fancy clothes of wealth for simple, plain, and practical dresses in which I could do housework in and even though Fidget and I still live with Aeval and Tangle I make it a point to get up before either my husband or my in laws/ adoptive parents I cook breakfast, clean house do laundry and mending out of respect for Aeval and Tangle I don't go near their private areas the rest of the house is organized and cleaned from top to bottom and breakfast is being cooked by the time Fidget, his parents and Lyra get up."
The Dream Librarian looked shocked and asked, "Does Aeval know about it?" I looked at the Dream Librarian and replied saying, "Of course she knows about it aside the fact that I usually get up nearly three hours before anyone else in the house and clean and cook I make no secret about the fact that I am being the good little housewife. Even Fidget knows about it."
The Dream Librarian shook her head and then replied saying, "For the time you are here you will Dress as though a member of the upper class." Finally I yielded seeing that I could not pursued her to let me have a plain unadorned dress I put the dress she gave me on. And when I followed her back to the other side of the curtain where Fidget was still waiting for me I could see that even he was now dressed as member of the upper class in fairy world obviously he had been taken and attended to by what ever male fairies live in this tower I sat down beside him dejectedly mostly because I could not stand that I was now wearing a fancy dress something I had not worn since high school but I decided to tough it out.