Well I got some positive responses from the first story so here is the next one! Shilo's first birthday!
It was Shilo's first birthday. Marianne had insisted on a small affair; family and close friends only. And my 'close' she meant, Thang, Stuff, and Plum. The first because they were the baby's father's closest advisors and the latter because she was the baby's magic master.
Otherwise it as just her father, Bog's mother, Marianne's father, Sunny, Dawn, and their twins born just months after Shilo, Liane and Cyrus.
"Why doesn't she get a big party like a princess should have?" Marianne's father asked, sternly. "Is it because of her… differences?"
"What? No! It's because she's a baby. Pomp and circumstance can come later. Let's let her have a happy memory with us as a proper family… not the Royal Family," Marianne crooned coddling the giggling little girl who was wrestling to get free from her mother's arms.
"And this is the first time the tins get to see her for her because of someone's rule," Marianne gave a sharp glare to her father who only shrugged.
"I thought it best."
Marianne rolled her eyes as she nodded to the guards at the door.
"When you are the Queen you can do as you see fit."
"Well thanks for looking at it through a King's perspective instead of a grandfather's."
"Marianne, not today, my tough girl. This is a day of celebration," Bog calmed her.
Shilo was… different… than other fairy babies for sure. But she still had the captivating beauty all fairies had. Sure she had her father's exoskeletal scales over her head arching up until they let a waterfall of brown curls fall from her head in a permanent ponytail. Her bright blue eyes were always laughing and her goblin exoskeleton on her left hip and leg looked like a stylish armor just like on her head. The only goblin part of her that couldn't pass for armor as her left arm and even then she would have looked odd if it had been a normal fairy arm.
Yes, Shilo was different but her parents and the adults they ruled loved her. The children were still trying to get over their instincts about the strangeness of her. But this experiment today would determine how, when the time came, she would deal with that and if the other children could handle it.
Dawn was holding Cyrus in one arm and Sunny had Liane. Both of them were giggling and batting at each other until the door opened.
Marianne finally released the squirming girl she was holding, who flitted from her mother's arms and to the floor, her young wings still not quite strong enough to support her very long.
"Is that Shilo?" Cyrus asked looking up at his mother. Dawn nodded a bit nervously.
"Wow," Liane gasped.
Marianne and Bog braced for impact.
"I didn't know she was so pretty!" Liane said, reaching behind her for her Papa without looking, swatting him in the face.
Marianne let out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding and let Bog slide his hand into her own.
"I believe you owe me, my dear," Bog purred to Marianne, "looks like I won the bet."
"Night's not over yet," Marianne said. But she needn't have worried. Shilo played amicably with her cousins who were half as big as she, though almost the same age, due to their elven father.
Shilo enjoyed her time with her cousins almost as much as the rest of the party, gifts and treats included. Yes for the little fairy goblin, it was a perfect day.
Welll super short but I hope you enjoy it.