The First Fae Queen

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h filled her ears. Instead of giving in to the urge to call out into the utter darkness, she

vious that she was naked. She felt a tickling sensation and groaned softly, slapping at her thighs and bu

roundings turned gray from the agonizingly slow rising sun. Before old tree trunks and shrubs began to ap

her body, save for a few minor bruises around her ankle. Before moving, she stood up and swept h

. She occasionally sank to her knees and crawled when the anguish became unbearable, but the discomfort quickly subsided. She looked down at

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ving into a shimmering mist above her. At first, it looked like she was walking straigh

eaned her head against the cold stone, knotted an old, bendy twig, and hurled it into the brush with a gr

e, tying both ends together and making a loop. She marched out, b

point the way, calling behind her, "I hope neve

d pine with an eight-arm-wid

Goodnight, big guy," while awkwardly

startled at first light. She now realized wh

d, "My name!" beaming with satisfaction

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her name. She stalked around it, prodding at the tightly wrapped bundle with a rotting stick. Once

-shirt, and a big pair of men's pants. She turned one of the ti

lah may have a range of colors and hard

re-free texture smothered her tongue in deliciousness. She stopped after the second one because she could feel her tongue swelling from the lack of water

s day. She only created one complete circle before adjusting the distance between the ma

ring, she awoke. As she got ready to get up and find her bearings in the darkness, growls and hoots could be heard all around her. She

nfully. She could see rough outlines, but nothing could have made the sounds she he

heck is

eaten all of the bloody energy bars. If she had, she wouldn't be in danger of obvious creatures being alert

ightening her chest. She would have been satisfied to let her bladder leak

in terror, day had come to take the place of night,

ips, and as she leaned forward due to dizzine

s aware that the event she had witnessed was imposs

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erplexed her even more. She groaned and scratched her te

s, which she struggled to swallow, and sweated out the remainder of her body's water. S

scomfort in her chest. She gave it a short blink, then disregarded it for a few seconds before collapsing like a starfish on the gr

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nthe slid onto her stomach and moved into some thick underbrush while creeping through the hard ground. She saw a shee

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ea. Dianthe's brows furrowed as she scrutinized her odd appearance. Her colorless, probably silver eyes searched her face for recognition as she reached up and poked at her filt

ooped up the cool liquid and drank as much of it as her stomach would allow. She took a few gasping

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her wet hands at the command.

ut when she looked through the holes in her fingers, sh

cool brook water over her fac

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walked over to the edge of t

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ity down her body, causing the water to rush th

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been hours since she had heard any forest creatures. She had been fumbling

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sters from the previous night because of how loud they were, but she suspected it

be a big body of water. She skimmed a few before frowning and turning back to look at t

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radually set. She stared as a steady streak of light glistene

with her heart. She kept an eye on it for a while to make sure it

," and warily ducked below her poncho. She gave on

bric that night as she woke up in the never-ending darkness

was stern and unp

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