The return of the elfen princess

I’m running. I’m running as fast as I can, through tree lines with trees that seem to reach all the way to the sky. Only allowing a ray of moonshine here and there to touch the forest floor, creating a pathway for me to follow. I’m running faster, with every breath I take I seem to pick up speed. I feel like I’m flying, I can see the trees pass by in a flash, feel the wind cooling my cheeks – yet there is something in the air. I can’t tell what it is but it’s making buzzing sounds and it’s coming closer! Suddenly the rays of light, that before shined through lighting the way for me, are gone. It’s dark. There’s something in the air - what is it? What is that odd sound? I turn around and something is coming. I can’t tell what it is. I look down and suddenly I’m falling...I look behind me again…I keep falling into the darkness. Something is coming for me through the tree lines...I can feel its presence on the back of my neck…I turn around and see… I wake, panting and sweating, as if I really had just run a marathon with hurdles through the woods, jumping over logs and ducking branches and bushes. One look beside me makes me realize I was just dreaming, and my classmates and Cadence are all still there – sound asleep. Curled up in their sleeping bags. I hear someone fart. Some are snoring, others are whimpering. I’m the only one awake. What a vivid dream that was. It felt so real and my legs are sore, almost as if they are cramping from the run I took. But it was just a dream – was it not? I look down and find myself tucked into my own sleeping bag with my pajamas on – my stuffed rabbit hidden under me out of sight, as no 16-year-old wants to be caught with their favorite stuffed toy on a school camping trip. Everything seems normal and yet I can’t shake the feeling that there is something in the darkness watching me…  ******** From the tree line, a pair of tiny gold glowing eyes, had appeared and was focusing on one of the three monstrosities, which the humans had called a “tent” earlier that day, while they were leaving all their things lying around and started to make something which resembled a nesting place. Pimkie was confused and watched in awe as the humans made “camp”, as they called it. She couldn’t take her eyes off them, watching them talk and interact with each other. It was fascinating. On occasion Pimkie had come across a human in the woods while on her excursions, but she was always too scared to get too close and so today, while picking flowers in the meadow, she had been caught off guard by a group of humans who had decided to stop here for the day and put up their tents and make a fire. Tears streamed down Pimkies cheeks, while she watched these humans destroy her favorite meadow. She now understood why Kargan had told her humans were bad and destroyed everything in their path – she was experiencing it firsthand. Yet Pimkie couldn’t leave. She stayed there in her hiding place behind a rock, close to the stream staring and suddenly when she woke from her trance like state she was surprised to find the night sky above her and the moon shining down on the three big tents, casting scary shadows upon the camp ground. Pimkie knew she had probably missed supper and the others would be worried about her, as she had been gone all day and who knows how many hours of the night. She was about to turn around and head back to the shelter, which she shared with the other mystical woodland, when she saw a girl step out of one of the tents. She was dressed in her pajamas and was holding on to what looked like a rabbit. Pimkie hoped it wasn’t a real rabbit as the destroying of the meadow that day had already caused her so much pain and suffering – if now one of her friends had been killed by one of the humans, well she couldn’t bare to finish that thought. Pimkie focused on the rabbit in the girls’ hand and recognized that it couldn’t have been one of her friends nor ever a living creature for that matter, as she had never seen such lifeless button eyes in her entire fairy life. The girl looked around, as if not knowing where to go… or was she looking for someone or something. Pimkie found this behavior odd. She hadn’t really noticed the girl during the day but now when she focused all her sense, she could feel an aura radiating from this, quite beautiful, human. Once again Pimkie found herself transfixed with awe. This time she could feel an excitement, rather than distrust towards humans, building up inside her and waited impatiently upon the humans next steps. Suddenly out of the blue the girl started running…towards the woods…right towards Pimkie. Pimkie crouched deeper behind the rock and watched as the girl jumped over her and the stream with its rushing cold water, heading further into the forest and into the darkness.