Lost Girls, Part II

Posted on Tue Jan 13, 2015 @ 1:33am by Civilian 'Key Holder' Yolanthe Ibalin

1,116 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Eye of the Beholder
Location: Promenade/Little Bajor
Timeline: MD01

"Okay. Where did you first see your fairy?"

"It was fast, it dashed behind the Fengri I think ... the food smelled so good and the man looked nice ... then the Fengri was there. Show me how I can catch it if I see it again."

Yolanthe passed her the net gun. "Red button, point at what you want to hit, and press. Keep that end away from your face. Now we're going to walk over to Squink's, nice and naturally. Keep your eyes up. You want to be able to notice everything around you. That includes above and below. You're not trying to see, just become..." she fumbled for the explanation, "aware. Got it?"

Eviess hadn't but she nodded anyway. "He's not here anymore," she said as they walked. It was awkward and Eviess couldn't really keep it straight. "Maybe we should try in the trees," she suggested.

"Okay," Yolanthe was more interested in looking round to see if security were coming to end her unintentional baby sitting. "Don't forget to look up. These trees aren't terribly big, but you never know."

They looked big enough to Eviess but then the rainbow lady was very tall. She crept forward keeping her eyes ahead trying to keep the strange weapon level.

Eviess crept between some shrubs and on to the soft soil beyond - it was shady here and cooler.

Eviess heard a rustle. Her head jerked round. It wasn't the rainbow princess, she was as silent as the furthest star. No, the noise came from somewhere else. Where?

Without moving her body or feet Eviess looked round - this was like trying to reach a nnierhh's nest without them swarming - then she saw him.

Her mouth widened. Even Eviess had thought that maybe she'd imagined the whole thing - another fairy. But what was he doing sneaking through the bushes and climbing the trees.

She drew in a slow breath and raised the weapon. Her hands were shaking - I'm gonna catch a fairy! she thought.

Yolanthe had also heard the noise and turned to look. But while Eviess saw a fairy, Yolanthe saw a very fine piece of ass carefully climbing a tree a few meters away, heading for a clump of fungus growing in the crux of two branches . The man was shirtless, and she could see the sweat glistening on his wiry shoulders. She turned a soft sherbert pink. Then the man, long hair in a pony tail climbied a little higher, flexing his glutes to push himself up, and she turned the colour of strawberries. This was a very nice view.


Fingers moist on the trigger and pulse racing, Eviess fired.

Yolanthe had been too busy perving at the man magnificient behind to pay attention to the small girl, and shouted, "No!" a fraction of a second too late. The microfilament net shot out of the barrel, the weighted ends barelling through the air, throwing the net wide and whiplashing around the climbing man, and knoclking from the branches. He gave a short yell of surprise before hitting a branch on his way down knocked half the breath out of him, and hitting the ground took the other half.

"Argh!" ground the man, "Ow," he moaned rolling over.

"Blake!" Yolanthe went from cherry red to lime green at seeing her best (and most beautiful) waiter lieing on the ground in pain.

Eviess looked down at her fairy - he had no wings, but oh, he was like a dream - how could he not have powers?

"I'll let you go if you grant me a wish," she said.

"Huh? What? Urgh, I think I broke my leg!" Blake groaned.

Eviess folded her arms. "Don't try and get out of it. I caught you and I get a wish before you can go anywhere. That's what the stories say. Rainbow Princess, help me make him give me my wish ..." Eviess turned to her companion and was surprised at the look on her face - and the extraordinary colour that seemed to light up the undergrowth. "... please?"

Yolanthe looked him over. He looked more bruise than broken. "Your leg isn't broken. But you're going to be sore. Give her a wish whilst I get you out of this net, okay?!"

Blake looked up at Eviess, a mixture of frustration and pain on his pretty face. "Uh, okay then kid, what wish do you want?"

"Bring my daddy home. Mummy needs him, I heard her say it but she doesn't know. Bring him home so she can be happy," Eviess asked, blinking away tears both for the captive fairy and mum.

Between winces, Blake gave Yolanthe a panicked look. She sat him up and unwrapped the net, trying to keep herself between Blake and Eviess, so she couldn't see. But her heart went out to her, and she turned grey. "Uh honey I don't -" she began

"I can't do that!" Blake protested between gritted teeth

"Then I have to cut off your head," Eviess stated, "so you can't spread anymore lies."

"Uh, I mean" Blake gave Yolanthe a wild look. "Uh, I can't do it right now. I can only do it on a, uh, ow, uh, full moon."

Eviess paused. Then she had her answer. "Probability states there is a full moon now somewhere - she dropped to her knees - use your powers my beautiful fairy. Bring daddy home. ... I don't *want* to cut your head off."

"He's in a castle, East of the Sun and west of the moon. You can only go in on full moon. You wait till then." He turned to Yolanthe. "Get me out of this!" he whispered

Yolanthe pulled the last of the netting away. "The fairy's hurt. He can't do anything till he's better. Lets get him to sickbay, and then he can go get your daddy." She turned slightly greyer. Pretending had been fun, but now the little girl was likely to be really hurt. She scooped Blake up as if he weighed no more than Eviess. "Okay?"

The Rainbow Princess looked even taller now that Eviess was sitting on the ground.

"I thought you were my friend, not theirs," Eveiss said keeping the bitter note of betrayal from her tone as best she could, "I don't care. I'll wait for mummy to fetch me. You are a fairy, you fooled me."

Blake groaned. "Kid, look, I don't even know what your dad looks like. Why don't you bring a picture to Yolanthe, and I'll see what I can do. Deal?"

Eviess squared her jaw. "No deal. I'll find you later."

She ran then, away, as fast her her legs could carry her.

 

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