Chapter 2: A Simple Girl Arrives
On a sunny afternoon a hardy teenage girl followed the nearly overgrown wagon tracks through the dense forest. In her hands were small stones she was passing back and forth while mumbling numbers, her feet finding steady foothold on the uneven tracks easily.
The girl was not particularly tall or attractive, her brown hair common and styled in a braid that was then wrapped around her head several times. In other words, she looked like any other girl on her way to a potential future home. If she found a husband in that place.
For the moment she was busy with her little stones, her tanned face stiff in concentration. After a little while the message 'Intelligence +1' appeared in her head. Though she had never learned how to read or write, everyone could understand the scroll and messages in their heads. That and the fact that one could raise stats by practicing things were all her Homestead knew about it.
Emmeline grinned for a moment when the message came, a grin that turned into a bright smile when she looked forward and saw the forest becoming less dense, with light shining through the tree trunks. She had to be close to her potential new home. If any of the boys there liked her and she liked them, of course. Fortunately she hadn't fallen for anyone in her own Homestead like her sister, who had been crying for days before she left their home. Now, with the hope that her first goal was close, Emmy's steps became more energetic. Not even the 'Endurance +1' message in her head could distract her. With tired calves but faster speed she followed the wagon tracks while the birds sang around her and small animals fled from her path.
The first impression was of fields that had strange little channels around them, occasionally with sticks left and right and a wooden board in between. In some of these channels there was water, especially around the seedlings. The frail things always needed a lot of water and in her Homestead all the children had to spend the early morning hours watering them. With those chanbels the task had to be much easier. Her eyes full of wonder Emmy looked towards the homestead...and froze.
Where she had expected an earth wall with a moat before it and a sturdy wooden fence there was...well, it was a wall. It looked smooth and it was very high, higher than anything Emmy had ever seen. It did not simply encircle a Homestead either. It reached into the forest, probably in a shape as perfectly round as a clay hut. A gate made of some kind of silver grey material stood open , though Emmy could not make out any details yet. It was shining in the sun like a very smoothly worked stone, but it was perfectly straight.
What happened next was so strange, so incredible Emmy could hardly breathe. She didn't even know any word that would fit the thing that suddenly grew with incredible speed, stone bowing outwards, being shaped by invisible, huge hands like clay. It was became a round thing that was part of the wall but with gaps starting from the middle. It was truly the strangest thing. It became high, very high, so high Emmy was sure it reached the clouds. In the end a round roof formed above the strange structure, with poles in four directions.
Emmy slumped down as she watched, full of awe but also a little fear. On the poles four flags were raised one after the other, each with the same motive. It was a circle, half pale gold and half black, with female shapes back to back outlined in the opposite color. Each female shape held out one hand and above each floated a rainbow jewel. Below those two shapes was the silhouette of a building that seemed to include structures similar to the very high...thing that had been shaped by a God's hand. The silhouette looked very impressive.
Convinced that she had found the home of god rank fairies Emmy hesitated. She was just an average girl looking for some adventure and a husband. What right did she have to intrude?
On the other hand...she looked around. There were fields. The gods wouldn't care for their fields with their own hands, would they? If they did...the fields would probably be all straight like that huge wall and...building.
Even while she contemplated more of those massive buildings grew all along the wall, each perfectly the same. Somehow, after the first time, Emmy became less overwhelmed. She could see that sometimes, the invisible hands seemed to make mistakes. A wall bowed too far outwards, only to be pushed back into the correct shape here, the distance wrong there. The mistakes were corrected quickly, but Emmy could see that it wasn't all perfect. The gods were perfect. So it had to be fairies.
Why fairies would build a fairy city out in the open instead of underhill was a mystery to the confused Emmy. Her head felt like it was overheating from all the new impressions.
Finally, she came to the decision that, while she might not be worthy to enter this place, she would definitely regret it all her life if she didn't at least try. Once the fairy city was finished it might become invisible like all the others in the stories the elders told in winter. Maybe fairy cities were always built this way?
Filled with endless awe and curiosity Emmy got up, dusted off her skirt and marched towards the strange gate. If she could see this fairy city being build she would have stories to tell her grandchildren one day that nobody could compete with. Such an experience might even be enough to make her the first elder one day!
But if she could go there and there were humans...if she could become part of this city...
Slowly but surely, Emmy's imagination ran wild.
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Cuttime The Protagonist arrived!
Also, in case you didn't realise, people live in homesteads, basically small family groups of about 100 people who live in a kind of ideal small communist society. To avoid inbreeding teenagers must either marry someone from a different homestead or leave to find a marriage partner.
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