Hello everyone! Hope the new year is going great so far for everyone! It is very cold here where I am so this piece feels appropriate. As this new year begins, there will be changes to short stories & stuff coming. I want to move it to a site like Patreon. If you heard about their kerfuffle, it made me hesitate. Now Gumroad has stepped up and some creators like it better. So, not which direction I will go but I will move it to one of those places. I hope which ever site I move to, that you will join me. In the mean time, I do have the tip jar at the bottom if you want to donate some green tea money.
Thank you all and I wish the best year coming. Hope you enjoy the story!
Hold Me Down
I met a winter faerie by
the spruce tree. The first thing that catches my attention are his ice blue
eyes.
I stayed as still as the
cold air that wrapped around us.
His grin was full of
trouble.
My chest thumped the
closer he got.
He stopped all but a mere
foot in front of me.
His hair was a white blue
in a braid that rested down the right side of his shoulder. There were white
seed pearls braided into his hair.
His nails are white claws
that sparkled in the suns light.
He held me while his ice
blue eyes looked me up and down.
I could almost feel the
life being sucked out of me.
Then he spoke.
“What a treasure I have
found. I invite you into faerie.”
I managed to breathe and
I shook my head no. I was not going anywhere with him.
But of course he just
grinned instead of frowning. I was a game and his kind liked them because they
always won.
“Oh but it will be fun. I
won’t let any harm come to you.”
I shook my head no again.
I thought I could hear a
laugh inside my head. “No,” I whispered.
He sighed. “Very well
then, how about a stroll in the forest. That will be just as nice.”
I let out a shaky breath
and for some reason my feet moved forward instead of backwards in the direction
I should have taken.
He smiled, pleased with
my choice.
The spruce trees where
close on either side of us. The snow weighed their branches down.
We stopped where the row
of spruce trees ended. I noticed something hanging off one of the branches.
“Do you like it? But don’t
touch it.”
“Why,” I asked.
“There is something very
delicate inside of it and we don’t want anything to happen to it.”
His cold breath chilled
my cheek.
“What is inside of it?”
“Your soul.”
I threw him an angry
look. “I did not give you my soul. Give it back.”
“Only if you come to
faerie with me.”
I had to think. “Okay,
but not right now. Later on today just before the sun sets.”
His ice blue eyes did not
trust me but he nodded. “I will see you then.”
I waited until he
disappeared. Then I very carefully took the ice ball and took it back to my
place.
I knew when I went inside,
it would melt. So, as soon as I got inside. I took my coat off and held the ice
globe against my chest where the skin was exposed.
I closed my eyes.
The coldness bit me skin
but soon the coldness melted and I could feel the cold ice water drip down my
front sending a shiver through me.
My eyes flew open.
I was in faerie. He had
tricked me and I should have known, they always win.
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