I think understanding how things work is important, and the ways of the fae are no exception. Especially when it come to fairy interactions with
humans.
Continuing from my second last post. What do you do when you see something new and step into the void to take a closer look?
Three choices:
1. Turn around and walk away.
2. Observe without interfering.
3. Intervene.
Choice number three is always dangerous. If you interfere with the work of a fairy, she may return later with the equivalent of her big brother.
Usually when you least expect it.
To intervene can be to do a simple kindness. That simple kindness can turn into something more and sometimes distressing to fulfill.
In my day job I work alone and drive on average two thousand kilometres a week. A month or so ago I stopped at a country town with a reputation for
ghosts in the old colonial buildings. The lady at the shop gave me a talk on their famous ghosts, it is a tourist draw.
One of these ghosts was said to be a girl who is sometimes seen outside the hotel.
A girl of about sixteen, she just sits outside the hotel waiting for a man who never comes. She is very friendly, probably too friendly. The man she
was waiting for was the man who killed her.
The (deceased) girl decided to accompany me on my travel. She was a chatterbox and full of questions. I guess she lived a quiet country life.
In conversation I showed her a place where the other deceased girls her age are. The fairies and other fae keep an eye on them. My thought was she
might find the afterlife more interesting with other kids her own age.
After an hour or two, I grew a tad weary of the chatter, she must have noticed and disappeared.
I thought about her again today and immediately heard: "I'm happy!" She obviously found something better and no longer sits on the hotel steps. A
happy ending for the girl.
That got me wondering. Why would a girl be waiting expectantly for a man that eventually kills her? She knew she was dead. She should have remembered
being killed.
Where was the missing twenty minute segment of her life?
Those 'twenty minutes' I found at the old grain mill further down the street. This girl was just a black shadow cowering terrified in a corner. That
was probably where she was raped and murdered.
When intervening in these things one is responsible for solving and cleaning up all of it.
So what to do with the twenty minute girl? It took some working out what had happened.
This original girl was
touched by the fae. This girl had a fairy within.
What had happened is the original girl experienced her fate all the way to life's end. What the fairy did after the girl died was to effectively
remove the last twenty minutes of memory. The cost to the fairy was becoming trapped in the memory of those last twenty minutes.
To solve this problem, one had to ask another fairy's assistance to separate the memory from the fairy.
At first glance, the problem was a deceased and traumatized girl. The actual problem was a fairy trapped in a fragment of a memory.
This was an interesting insight into what a fairy can do with a human memory.
edit on 30-4-2021 by NobodySpecial268 because: neatness