Kiki woke, rubbing her pregnant belly. It looked like the trees had started to turn a golden shade, in what transpired as a 'season' in this strange world. She wasn't really sure she understood how this place actually worked. There was a warmth in the sky, yet strangely no actual sun. Tree's needed sunlight didn't they?
"Farin?" She called, rising a little wobly from their nest.
"Yes my love?"
"How... do trees grow? Don't they need sunlight?"
"On other worlds yes. But here, we are their light. We sustain them, as much as they sustain us."
Kiki nodded. The relationship fairies had with the plants was certainly an interesting one. Where they went, they encouraged growth and fertility in an ecosystem. She had learned so much in her time here, more then she could have ever known in that other life. In truth, she didn't feel afraid here. It was nice... part of her wondered if she did deserve this place, given who she used to be. But all that was a life time away.
Her thoughts turned to her other, younger self. Kimi who seemed to be in the 'now' in some form of mortal peril. "Morgana," she whispered.
Farun suddenly grew tense. An almost unseen emotion among the fairy race. "Why do you speak this name?"
Kiki looked apologetic. "Someone who's life I share is with her. She wishes to take her body, and enter 'a new age?'" She hoped Farin could understand what was happening to her now. Every time she tried to explain it though, the enigmatic male just accepted her story as simply events of little consequence. Yet now, they appeared to be a potential threat.
"Morgana... is not one we speak of here," He admitted sheepishly. "However she can not harm us."
"But I share my life with that young girl. Can we be so certain it will have no consequence?"
Farin looked over her and brushed her hair in his delicate hand. "You share a connection of spirit. It happens from time to time, with humans." Farin tried to say soothingly. "It is usually to a child most in need of a fairy."
Kiki nodded at that. "She does need me Farin. I have to help her," or was she trying to help herself? She wasn't sure.
Farin glanced vaguely to the large abandoned tree then back to Kiki. "We can not fight Morgana. She is...too powerful," the young male said thoughtfully. "We also can not bring ourselves to that world. There is simply little magic. We would not survive there."
"There exists magic in her grove. can we not... go there?" Kiki asked with some desperation.
"Morgana would sense us, and will no doubt be prepared. She would know the child is linked to they fey. Perhaps that is why she wishes to take possession of her body. It would grant her access to the magical realm here."
Kiki thought about this situation. "What if I learned magic. Could I possibly... give that magic power, to the child?"
Farin gave it some thought. "Possibly. Magic here is rarely practised, we have... no need for it as we 'are' the magic. Our queen knew its secrets but..." He trailed away. "It would be very difficult for you to learn, though not impossible. There could also be consequences employing our power through the child. I do not know what it would do to the young girl, who's life you share."
"I don't think I've any choice..."
"I will get you a few scribes of the old knowledge. Though In your condition... it would be unwise to learn anything more then a single spell. Choose a good one to impart on your charge."
Kiki looked pensive a moment. "What would happen to me... if... she dies?"
The answer horrified the pregnant fairy.
"I do not know."
Erica woke to see her daughter poking her head with her face. "H-huh yes?" The teen skunk girl blinked a bit.
The young skunk girl smiled. "We er- have to be somewhere now," Nikki explained quickly.
"What;s all the ruckus?" Samuel said getting out of his sleeping bag. He was keeping close to Erica. He wasn't sure why being with her felt so... right. He loved her, a great deal. Seeing The result of that love with Nikki was also just a wonder. It was hard to believe that he would have a child that looked so... different. Still he could see parts of himself in her. The eyes, the nose, even if she was a completely different species.
"We have to go daddy. Keith is- er- We just have to be somewhere now," She explained. "It'll make sense later I promise."
"Well okay. Help me pack up the tent Poppy. Erica you put out the fire"
The skunk-girl nodded glad to be of some use here. It seemed quite odd that her young daughter was better then her at the wilderness, but that was to be expected. Obviously She knew that Nikki would be here, and Samuel had trained her in all the ways he had himself knew. It still left Erica at a great disadvantage. All the same, watching the two take down the tent as if they had done it a million times over was strangely... gratifying. She was so proud of her family in the future.
Would that really be her future? She... was actually looking forward to it. For the first time since she had this body, she was happy. Excited even. She was at peace with her attraction to Samuel, when the idea of being attracted to a male was just abhorrent before. She guessed she 'could' blame her hormones for it but... it just seemed... okay now? She quickly poured some water over the fire, as it sizzled away.
"Where do we go?" Asked Erica, as she brushed her black and white fur.
"We follow the moon," Nikki pointed.
Lilly stared in wonder at the blue branch. She gave it a little sniff to smell it... but aside from the colour, it was just an ordinary tree. Had the sunlight affected it in some way?
She tentatively placed a paw-like hand onto it, feeling the texture, not quite sure what it was. It certainly was not paint, or any artificial pigment. Also why just this branch? She had never heard of such a thing happening. Then again, she had become just a 'dumb' child...
She snapped off a small twig of it, and smiled a bit. It was pretty colour- she blinked at that thought. Was- was that a girly thought? She hoped not. But... it was there and couldn't be denied. Maybe.. she'll keep it. She placed the twig in a pocket, deciding she had best get back home now. It was getting late and she didn't want her parents to worry.
