Hello everyone! Today we have this cute little fellow. Hope you enjoy one of my longer flash fictions that's almost a short story.
The Fox Prince
Flash fiction
He was a shapeshifter and
was as white as the snow he padded on. He was a most beautiful ethereal
creature.
To entertain him might
not be wise.
His fox eyes were always
on the lookout for someone who might follow. There was always someone caught up
in his beauty that would forget themselves.
That’s what he counted
on. But there was a story of a young girl who came back from where ever she had
gone with him.
Some thought that she was
not human either and that was why she came back. No one knew for sure.
She liked to tell the
story in any case. It went like this.
The day was a clear sunny
cold day and she was walking through the woods to get to the field where her
horse was. She was bringing him back to the barn.
When she got near the
gate she noticed something white and her horse was looking at it. At first she
thought it was a hare but as she got closer she knew it wasn’t.
She stopped a few feet
from what she now recognized as a young white fox. She had not seen one of
these before where she lived.
The fox turned its head
and the eyes held her in her place. She didn’t know how long she had been
standing there but the next thing she knows, there is someone standing right in
front of her.
His hair is white and his
face is perfect but the fox eyes are still there. There is something in his hair that is tied to
a braid in his hair. It looks like a key.
“Who are you,” she asks.
He does not answer her
and instead looks back at her horse. “Can we ride?”
“Together?”
He nodded. “It’s getting
late and it will soon be dark. I have to feed and water him.”
He smiled and then
whirled around and rushed toward the horse that did not move.
She ran after him
thinking that he was going to steal the horse but he waited for her and held
out his hand to help her up.
She grabbed on and then
they were off into the dim light across the field.
Where he was going she
did not know.
He entered into a small
opening in the bush that she thought would be way too small for the horse and
them to fit through but it was as if it was bigger than what they were.
When she looked back, she
couldn’t even see the opening. Her heart raced she told us.
They stopped in front of
a large tree that suddenly shimmered in bright light and she said she couldn’t believe
it. There was another world awaiting them.
He cautiously rode
through and she said she instantly looked behind but could only see a
reflection of the world they were entering.
He took her to a massive
castle made of ice and snow. It glistened in the pink light that was telling
her it was going to be dark soon. That frightened her.
He got off the horse and helped
her down. She stood in front of him and looked up into his fox eyes.
He smiled warmly and
pulled her inside the castle where it was a bit warmer. The floor looked like
glass and she could see her own reflection.
His reflection was of the
fox that she seen at the gate and yet he walked in his almost human form on top
of the floor.
He took her to a large
dining table where there were tables full of food but no one else was there.
He took a plate and
handed it to her and took his own and encouraged her to fill it up and eat.
Everything looked so good
and she couldn’t help but fill her plate.
They ate and drank from
silver goblets and what it was she did not know but it tasted good.
After they finished she
told him perhaps it was late now and that he should take her back.
She said he would after
they shared one dance and she said the music came out of thin air.
The music made her feet
move and together they danced on the ice floor until when she did not know.
Time disappeared.
They were now on her side
now and how they got here she had no memory of it.
He stood close to her
next to her horse. He reached up to his braid and took the key that was tied to
his braid.
He pressed it in her hand
and told her that it would give her access to his world.
His cool lips touched
hers and when she opened her eyes she was standing in front of the gate with her
horse waiting for her.
It was a bit darker but
she quickly got on her horse and went back to the barn with thoughts and images
of a strange boy that said he was a fox prince and that he was looking for a
princess. He thought that she might be the one.
He said he gave each one
a key and if it worked when they tried to get to his world, then he knew she
was the one.
If it didn’t work, then
something would happen. He didn’t say what.
We all looked at her and
asked her if she tried to get to his side.
She shook her head and
said that when she tried to find the key, it was nowhere to be found and
thought she lost it on the way home.
The one thing that she
didn’t tell us was that every once in a while, she disappeared and no one knew
where she went.
The one thing we noticed
was that there was sightings of a white fox and that he hung around the gates
of where she kept her horse.
Sometimes she would tell
us of vivid dreams she had that involved a boy with snow white hair that had fox
eyes dancing with her on an ice glass floor.
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