Lauren Mills
Stories (2/0)
Heritage
Chapter 1: She was content with the quiet of the forest around her. She was more at home here than in the village. There she was a novelty, something to be looked at and admired but nothing more. Out here among the endless trees, she was herself without having to hide or pretend. She had always felt different from everyone else. At least, that was how she felt after her father had abandoned her and her mother. Her mother, heartbroken and sick, had sent her to live in the nearby village of Ourania. Now, nearly 3 years later, she received a letter that changed her life. It was from the healer who had taken care of her mother.
By Lauren Mills3 years ago in Fiction
Rael
In the darkest forest, on the edge of the largest city in the fairy kingdom, the creatures that had inhabited it for the last two million years were more restless than they had been in the last century. For the last seven weeks, fairies across the land had tried to restore the land to its natural harmony. Some of the fairies had taken to meditating in the forest for hours upon hours. One such fairy, who was more worried about healing the forest and setting it back in order than chanting idiotically around the ceremonial alters, Rael sat on an old stump beginning her daily meditation routine. Just from placing a hand on the stump, she could feel the anger, resentment, and pain of not only the tree itself but of the entire forest for miles upon miles. Something in the radiating pain made Rael uneasy. As welcoming as the forest seemed, Rael could almost feel the forest's creatures and the ancient magic that had sustained it for ages take their last dying breaths in the stillness of the sudden silence that ran unbroken throughout the entire expanse of
By Lauren Mills3 years ago in Futurism