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A Fairy Out of Her Tale - Dear Diary - 10. Scene 10

Nessa finally leaves the forest behind.

5th January, 1995

Dear Diary of Miracles,

I did it. I managed to outrun the trees and the birds and even the stream that tried to drown me when I jumped over it. I'm now sitting in a sandy empty space that stretches forever in the horizon. The last remains of forest end about 100 metres from here, cut off by a paved road that so far remains empty. It's a nice road, though. The asphalt is smooth , new, well-cared for (and too hot for my bare feet! As if blisters weren't enough, I've got burned soles now too!). I think this road is much busier than it's letting on. My map says it marks the official frontier between Floresfada and Daisen, the shape-shifter land.

Actually, that road has a funny shape. It's kind of a ring encircling this small desert area and separating it from the forest on the southeast, the mountains to the south, the sea to the north, and some big city west of here.

I can't walk anymore. I might be safe from trees, but now I'm out in the open sands with the sun burning my face and no shade anywhere that is not trying to hurt me. I still don't have water, and I'm not desperate enough to think of sand as food. The road should lead me to a city, but by the time my legs recover enough energy to take me there, the rest of my body will have collapsed from the lack of nourishment and the dry, intense heat over my head.

If I was going to end up like this, why did I bother getting out of the forest? I could've died among the trees so at least my body would nourish them in its decay.

I guess I'm really not a fairy anymore.

Though what does that make me?

I hear something! A car!

Talk to you later!

Thanks for reading! :)
It's out of the frying pan and into the flames for Nessa, isn't it? 
This is officially the end of the first part of the story. Nessa has left the forest behind, and so we must leave Part 1 behind as well. We're now in Part 2 - "Border Crossing".
How much of a mind fuck is it to have fairies talk about asphalt, cars and big cities? That's one of the things that I enjoy the most about writing this story: yes. it's a fairy tale, but it's set in a world that's only 23 years behind ours in technology levels.
(And yes, there is an important event in that world that marked "year 1", but I shall not spoil the surprise too soon)
If you don't want to wait until Tuesday to find out if that car is the carriage of our Prince Charming, you can become my patron (link on my profile) and read a week's worth of scenes in advance. 
See you then!
Copyright © 2018 James Hiwatari; All Rights Reserved.
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D.K. Daniels

Leaving her home is a big milestone. I guarantee she has never seen a city on the scale of the ones in Daisen. For some reason its something I'd expect to find in Final Fantasy; colossal ostentatious buildings, and a lot of brutal sadness going on in the background. Nice way of contemplating; that she'd rather die with the trees than dying in a foreign land.

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James Hiwatari
On 3/6/2018 at 9:49 AM, D.K. Daniels said:

Leaving her home is a big milestone. I guarantee she has never seen a city on the scale of the ones in Daisen. For some reason its something I'd expect to find in Final Fantasy; colossal ostentatious buildings, and a lot of brutal sadness going on in the background. Nice way of contemplating; that she'd rather die with the trees than dying in a foreign land.

Daisen is pretty much this future sci-fi tech land compared to what Nessa is used to. As for the brutal sadness, we'll have to see for ourselves. 

 

Talk about milestones: for me personally it wasn't so much "leaving home" as "mum got a job in another city, and since you're already grown up and living with your partner, I'll be the one leaving". Not that this compares to being forced to leave your home when you're not anywhere near ready, but it hopefully still makes for an amusing story in the middle of Nessa's current low point. 

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D.K. Daniels

I was expecting it to be huge; so I guess I was heading in the right direction. Now, all we need is a floating city; like in Bioshock. So at least we have an idea of what the city would look like. Hey, that would be a good image to capture, Nessa, leaving the forest behind and nothing but dunes in-between her and a majestic city. Ah, so it is kind of like; oh I made it to the city sort of deal.

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James Hiwatari
4 minutes ago, D.K. Daniels said:

I was expecting it to be huge; so I guess I was heading in the right direction. Now, all we need is a floating city; like in Bioshock. So at least we have an idea of what the city would look like. Hey, that would be a good image to capture, Nessa, leaving the forest behind and nothing but dunes in-between her and a majestic city. Ah, so it is kind of like; oh I made it to the city sort of deal.

Hold your horses about the floating city! 

I can't give details until some other key characters show up, but here's a virtual cake for mentioning something that is totally a thing in this thing. And I'm sure all those things are making all the sense now. 

Confusion is a valid strategy to deflect from possible spoilers. The cake is totally not a lie, though. 

Sort of.

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D.K. Daniels
22 minutes ago, James Hiwatari said:

Hold your horses about the floating city! 

I can't give details until some other key characters show up, but here's a virtual cake for mentioning something that is totally a thing in this thing. And I'm sure all those things are making all the sense now. 

Confusion is a valid strategy to deflect from possible spoilers. The cake is totally not a lie, though. 

Sort of.

Cake; sigh... How did you know I loved Cake. Oh wait, so does that mean I don't get a cake now or does that mean that its a maybe, or not at all.

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James Hiwatari
15 minutes ago, D.K. Daniels said:

Cake; sigh... How did you know I loved Cake. Oh wait, so does that mean I don't get a cake now or does that mean that its a maybe, or not at all.

It means the cake is there as long as you believe in it. ;) 

 

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