kaden's Secret: Part 3
Jul. 26th, 2008 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eustaciavye77Date: March 25th, 1999, several hours after the funeral of Padraig Shea Sr, Kaden's grandfather
Location: Kaden's family home in West Ireland
Rini shook a bit as she reached forward for the strange woman's hand. "What are you? How did you get here?"
Orlaithe took Rini by the arm and cocked her head to the side. She stated, simply "I flew."
That answer wasn't good enough for the poor confused woman who backed away again. She looked at Kaden and saw a strangers face.
"Someone had better start explaining fast."
The other two looked at each other, looking as if they expected the other to speak first. Orlaithe shook her head "This is YOUR life Kaden. I can't do this for you." And with that Rini saw her disappear into nothing.
"See this is why I didn't want to tell you."
"Tell me what? I still don't get it. Who was that and what just happened and why are you glowing blue?!?"
Kaden sat down and shimmied her body against the base of a large tree. She gestured for Rini to do the same and the two women rested, side by side, each gazing off into the distance.
"I was 8 and a half. I came here for the summer. Grandma and Grandpa were both still alive. My first day here I took my teddy bear and a walking stick and spent the morning right here, among these trees. I called it the forest. I had just climbed up this tree right here to that branch above our heads and was sitting against the trunk, looking at the sun through holes I made in leaves when Orlaithe came to me. She asked me if i wanted to play and made me a crown of flowers. She introduced me to a few other faeries..."
"Faeries??"
"Yes Rini, Faeries. What did you think she was?"
"I guess I just didn't know"
"anyway they made good playmates. They're very lively, they don't have many inhibitions even when they reach adulthood. I spent part of every day for almost two months playing side by side with Orlaithe and her son Fiachra. He was.... like a teenager at the time. The end of the summer came and I was supposed to leave to go back to the States for school and I was so upset. They had told me how adults can't see them, how people who have met them forget its ever happened and I couldn't bear the thought. Then Fiachra made an offer."
"What kind of offer?"
"An ancient potion and incantation, the ones that started that whole faeries stealing babies myth. He could turn me into a sort of hybrid so I'd have their vision, some of their abilities, wouldn't forget them. Orlaithe was not pleased. I guess way back when they got in a lot of trouble for corrupting little kids who would then run off to the forest to leave with their fae kin because they couldn't deal with the human world anymore. I didn't care about any of that and before Orlaithe could stop me I had tossed the potion down my throat. There was no turning back. So I'm not strictly human, even though I've chosen to remain in the human world. I guess you could say I'm on the fence between the human world and the world most people believe is a myth."
The whole time she told her story, Kaden had looked at the trees, the sky, the ground, not once at Rini. When she finally turned to her right to gauge her friends reaction she saw tears going down the girls face."
"You've lived with this for over 10 years?"
"Yes."
"you never told anyone?"
"My family knows. My father and grandfather knew these same fae as children and it didn't take much for them to remember once I had my encounter. My mother... well she's always been a little fruity, ya know? She was just WAITING for some evidence."
Kaden chuckled and Rini couldn't help but laugh as well. Kaden's mother was an incense and meditation hippie.
Rini thought it over for a minute and asked the question that had been burning at the back of her mind since she'd realized Kaden was really seeing something that was really there.
"How do I learn to see them?"
Location: Kaden's family home in West Ireland
Rini shook a bit as she reached forward for the strange woman's hand. "What are you? How did you get here?"
Orlaithe took Rini by the arm and cocked her head to the side. She stated, simply "I flew."
That answer wasn't good enough for the poor confused woman who backed away again. She looked at Kaden and saw a strangers face.
"Someone had better start explaining fast."
The other two looked at each other, looking as if they expected the other to speak first. Orlaithe shook her head "This is YOUR life Kaden. I can't do this for you." And with that Rini saw her disappear into nothing.
"See this is why I didn't want to tell you."
"Tell me what? I still don't get it. Who was that and what just happened and why are you glowing blue?!?"
Kaden sat down and shimmied her body against the base of a large tree. She gestured for Rini to do the same and the two women rested, side by side, each gazing off into the distance.
"I was 8 and a half. I came here for the summer. Grandma and Grandpa were both still alive. My first day here I took my teddy bear and a walking stick and spent the morning right here, among these trees. I called it the forest. I had just climbed up this tree right here to that branch above our heads and was sitting against the trunk, looking at the sun through holes I made in leaves when Orlaithe came to me. She asked me if i wanted to play and made me a crown of flowers. She introduced me to a few other faeries..."
"Faeries??"
"Yes Rini, Faeries. What did you think she was?"
"I guess I just didn't know"
"anyway they made good playmates. They're very lively, they don't have many inhibitions even when they reach adulthood. I spent part of every day for almost two months playing side by side with Orlaithe and her son Fiachra. He was.... like a teenager at the time. The end of the summer came and I was supposed to leave to go back to the States for school and I was so upset. They had told me how adults can't see them, how people who have met them forget its ever happened and I couldn't bear the thought. Then Fiachra made an offer."
"What kind of offer?"
"An ancient potion and incantation, the ones that started that whole faeries stealing babies myth. He could turn me into a sort of hybrid so I'd have their vision, some of their abilities, wouldn't forget them. Orlaithe was not pleased. I guess way back when they got in a lot of trouble for corrupting little kids who would then run off to the forest to leave with their fae kin because they couldn't deal with the human world anymore. I didn't care about any of that and before Orlaithe could stop me I had tossed the potion down my throat. There was no turning back. So I'm not strictly human, even though I've chosen to remain in the human world. I guess you could say I'm on the fence between the human world and the world most people believe is a myth."
The whole time she told her story, Kaden had looked at the trees, the sky, the ground, not once at Rini. When she finally turned to her right to gauge her friends reaction she saw tears going down the girls face."
"You've lived with this for over 10 years?"
"Yes."
"you never told anyone?"
"My family knows. My father and grandfather knew these same fae as children and it didn't take much for them to remember once I had my encounter. My mother... well she's always been a little fruity, ya know? She was just WAITING for some evidence."
Kaden chuckled and Rini couldn't help but laugh as well. Kaden's mother was an incense and meditation hippie.
Rini thought it over for a minute and asked the question that had been burning at the back of her mind since she'd realized Kaden was really seeing something that was really there.
"How do I learn to see them?"
