2: Axis Mundi
Phantasia looked down at her hands and wondered just what she had really learned during her journey. All she could do was weakly emulate the greater powers of proper faeries! She couldn’t create illusions or move winds; she couldn’t fight like a warrior or shape the material world; she couldn’t control magical energies or manipulate emotions; and she certainly couldn’t read the waters or come to efficient, logical solutions to problems!
What could she do?
Find the World Axis.
“Because of your talents, you were able to come here,” said the stranger, “Dionysus rightfully believed that your true power can never be tapped while in the faerie’s world. In order to reach your full potential, and understand your nature, you must travel to the other world. To the human world,”
It stunned her. Excited her. Scared her. The human world! That secret longing she had always had to go there, had it been a subconscious urge to understand herself? Had the answer been there all along?
“Go there, and understand everything,” said the voice, and then in an instant the figure vanished in the same strange way it had appeared, leaving Phantasia alone in the vast emptiness of the world’s current, without even Dionysus’s knowledge to comfort her.
***
The Princess stood before her Queen, who looked down at her with curious blue eyes. Strange things were indeed afoot in the world and even the water faeries were lost for answers.
“The figure you described, I have heard of it spoken before,” said the Queen as Phantasia looked up at her, eagerly expecting an answer to the mystery, “It was during the last war. The humans received help from such a figure, who showed them magicks even we were unaware existed. We do not know who this figure is, or why it would appear to you.”
Phantasia felt downhearted. She wanted to know who the figure was, and why it had told her what it had. The Queen must have picked up on her thoughts, because she came down from her throne and placed her hands on Phantasia’s shoulders.
“So, the human world… Do you want to go there?”
Phantasia nodded, there was no need for words.
The Queen leant down and kissed her forehead. “Then that is where you shall go,”
A great cliffhanger!