Ptillen: Rain Faerie
Ptillen is a rain faerie. Her fragile features are as delicate as the flowers she
tends and her fair hair streams behind her in ribbons of the palest gold. A soft
sap-green silk garment drapes her tiny form. Butterfly wings mirror a rose’s lilac
pallet.
After the rain, the rose opens to reveal its violet depths. A baby is born. Ptillen,
who has gone about the nurturing task of bringing the rain, peers into depths, to
reassure herself that her ward is flourishing. A plump, contented baby gurgles up
at her in delighted response.
Ptillen has brought this tiny fairy a rainbow-trimmed play-thing. She knows that
all too soon the small wings will strengthen and unfold, and her baby ward will
take his first attempted flight into the swirling up-draught.
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