[dedicated to a superfantabulous faerie queen]
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Ever had that feeling you're being watched? That somebody is talking about you?
Well, I felt like I had dozens of pairs of eyes on me - the hairs on the back of my neck prickling up, and my ears were burning. I was lounging out in the garden, in just my boxers trying to develop my tan, and half-dozing in the evening sun, but that feeling shot me upright.
I glanced around, but saw no-one. However, I couldn't shake the feeling. It was if there was a whispering, a chorus of voices, just out of earshot, talking about me.
Shaking my head, I picked up my orange juice from the small patio table beside me, and took a sip, setting it back down and trying to relax again. Eventually, despite that strange nagging feeling, I drifted off to sleep once again.
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The sound of giggling, female voices awoke me, and I went to sit up, but found myself trapped to the lounging chair. I couldn't even raise my head, so I glanced around, trying to determine the source of the voices. I still couldn't see anyone around, but I could see what bound me.
Threads, thin and white like spider silk so numerous they seemed to almost cocooning my chest and thighs, ankles, elbows and wrists. I could feel the strands pulling at locks of my hair, and about my neck and shoulders, pinning me down quite securely. They looked deceptively light, but struggle as I might, I could hardly move a whisper. I found myself thinking of the children's story Gulliver, where the Lilliputians had tied up Gulliver on the sea shore, after his shipwreck.
"He's awake! He's awake!" the giggling chorus rose, and I heard a fluttering sound. Moments later, spiraling up from beneath my lounging chair and landing on my chest, came...
Faeries?
I blinked, once, twice, my eyebrows furrowing in disbelief. I must be dreaming, I thought. Sprites, pixies, whatever you might want to call them - tiny winged and distinctly feminine creatures like out of modern faerie tales. Surely, I must be dreaming?
But as the group of faeries, some dozen - each hardly a foot tall, with graceful willowy figures, which if were transposed to human size would do make many a human model jealous I'm sure, with glittering wings, some like butterflies and others like those of lacewings, and dressed in a multitude of colours, no one faerie wearing the same hue - began to dance around on my chest, forming two rings, the outer going clockwise, the inner in the opposite direction, their tiny feet skipping over my bare skin - I felt certain this was no dream.
It was all too vivid, despite the fantastical scene that I found myself watching. There was a scent like dozens of varieties of flowers intermingling in the air, from the faint glittering dust that seemed to be coming off of their wings I guessed. Everything seemed real, every touch, smell, sight and sound.
Their long, shapely legs - for their size - were completely bare, from tiny toe tips up to the hem of their tiny skirts, which fluttered up in the breeze, revealing that their dresses were all they wore.