THE OAK TREE NYMPH
Flash fiction
It was said that she was
once human but it’s hard to say given the ways stories can change with age.
Deep in the Old Ridge
forest that is so old that a lot of it has even disappeared through time, is
said to be where she met the love of her life.
Siera was walking through the woods and some said
she was walking that day with a troubled mind and that was what caught his
attention.
No matter what, when she
came back from her walk, her mood was different.
Each day she made a trip
back into the forest and her family was wondering why she was doing this so her
father and brother followed her one day’
They lost track of her
half way and could not find her. They both panicked and thought something had
gotten her.
But when they went back,
there she was. And when they asked her about it, she only smiled and said that
she had only gone for some herbs.
They both looked at one
another and ended up shrugging it off. They didn’t follow her again.
But this one day a
stranger came to their cottage and was asker for Siera.
It was her sister that
came and got her. Her father and brother were not home.
When Siera went to the
door, she smiled. Her sister knew that this gentleman was not like them and ran
to get her father and brother.
But by the time they all
got back, Siera was gone. They all rushed to the forest to find her.
All they could see was
some tracks that ended up at an old oak tree. None of them could figure out
where she went. There were no other tracks leading anywhere but to the tree.
Finally after an
exhausting hunt, they went back home.
They never did find her
but her sister Mary who had gone for a walk in the woods and walked to the old
tree where the tracks had ended. The rains had made everything lush and the air
smelled sweet.
Mary looked around as if
looking for her sister. When she turned around to leave, she felt a familiar presence.
She didn’t turnaround right away but could feel eyes on her.
A prickle crept up her
neck.
When she got brave enough
to turn around Mary thought she saw eyes hidden in the tree looking at her and
her own eyes went wide.
She whispered Siera. But
when she blinked all she was some bugs crawling over the bark.
The experience haunted
Mary the whole trip back. Thoughts of the stranger that Siera appeared to know
played out in her mind.
When she got back home,
she never told the rest of her family what had happened.
The whole story from
there was vague and faded but it was believed that Siera had been taken by a
woodland faerie and now lived with him in the old forest.
The old oak tree which is stands tall and big now is still there wielding unknown magic by her.
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