**Author's Note: Some of these notes about Irish fairies are from books and others are made up. Happy Holidays!
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Glenna's mouth watered at the smell of gingerbread sashaying about the house along with the soft burble of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas". No one baked like Grandma Tilly. The old Irish Matriarch had a smile that could brighten the darkest winter. Hair a pale peach where it was once a fiery red and a twinkling laugh that was full of mischief Grandma Tilly was the glue that had the family flocking to Northern Ireland every Christmas. About 30 Irish cousins and American relatives gathered on the large horse breeding farm greeting the old Gaelic "Nollaig Shona Duit" and making the house and stable gay with holiday decorations.
Glenna was helping to hang the green garlands of holly and evergreen around the house while her parents fixed a string of tinsel around the robust Christmas tree. Snow was gently falling outside, blanketing the ground and gleaming in the moonlight a sugary icing on a holiday cake. Glenna was setting the traditional Candle in the Window to light it for the night when Grandma Tilly had asked her to take her freshly baked cake out to the barn. The plate was warm and the heavenly aroma of gingerbread and nutmeg made her lick her lips. Glenna never really understood why her grandparents would waste such a nice cake on some old made up spirit. The wild animals were going to get it anyway or even some of the stable hands.
She remembered when her grandparents would sit her by the fire with all of her cousins to tell her stories about little people causing trouble but sometimes helping them too. A fairy's nature could be unpredictable but they were relatively pleasant so long as they were treated with respect. Leaving food for fairies and sprites was in itself an old Irish custom. Mostly it was leaving a bowl of cream or a loaf of bread but the pooka, the flying horse fairy that liked to whisk people away on its back to parts unknown or even to their death, liked a special cake. A cake made of gingerbread, bits of fruit and topped with poppy seeds. Every Christmas Eve they would bake the special cake and leave it in the stable for him to eat. And in return the pooka made their horse farm successful.
Glenna wouldn't say her family was ultra-rich but she had gone to private school and was able to live comfortably. She loved horses and was working on her degree in Equestrian Studies to enter in the family business. But she was also realistic. She loved the magic and majesty of Christmas but that didn't mean she believed in the jolly Santa Claus or his helpful Elves or bargains with mischievous Horse Spirits. Her grandparents' doors and windows were topped with an upside down horse shoe inside so as to keep out the pooka in case he decided to play any games.
Still she did as her grandmother told her. At least the snow had stopped falling for now. Glenna braced the cold, her boots sinking into the deep snow with hushed crunches. The wind whistled past her ears, burning her cheeks with its harsh bite. She tried to bury her nose further into the woolen red scarf her aunt knitted for her. After this she would have a nose as red as the fictional Rudolph. Glenna found relief in the giant stable. She was hit with warmth but also the smell of fresh hay, horses and the light yet odorous stench of manure. Deciding to take her time, Glenna set the cake on a square stack of hay by the door and went to check on the horses. With her bare hands she warmed them to the velvety muzzles of the stallions and mares, all thoroughbreds ranging from warm chestnut brown to sleek satin black to sandy beige and snow white.
In the stable was a decorated Christmas Tree set up by the door next to an empty stall. White golden lights, deep crimson ribbons, silver platinum and golden baubles adorned the sturdy evergreen branches. The rafters were twined with garlands of evergreen and holly, a wreath hanging above each end of the stable. It was a rustic holiday home that Glenna found relaxing.
"Hello, Princess Fatima," Glenna went to the private stall of the family's new Arabian mare. She was one of 5 Arabian horses acquired by her family. Fatima was a dappled gray with gentle black eyes. Timid by nature, Fatima shied away when Glenna first walked in. But with patience and soothing whispers and a couple of sugar cubes, she managed to get the horse to come up to her and let her pet her nose.
"Such a beautiful lady," Glenna cooed. She stroked the graceful arch of the horse's neck, the hairs so fine they were like satin, feeling the powerful compact muscles flex beneath her loving palm. Glenna was content until the hairs on the back of her neck prickled with awareness. She wasn't alone. She turned around but only saw horses. She could swear she heard someone breathing close by. A warm moist air puffed at the tip of her frostbitten ear. Her whole body went rigid with alarm. Goosebumps raised the fragile hairs along her arms even under her woolen jacket.
But once again when she turned in a circle there was no one. Glenna's stomach turned slightly. She stood stock still waiting for something to happen. But after a few long minutes nothing happened and she relaxed. It was probably one of her cousins trying to be funny. She felt like an idiot. Like those kids who listened to Grandma Tilly's stories of fairies that snatched unsuspecting girls from lonely roads and groves to become their servants in the Otherworld. Ridiculous.
Glenna went to the entrance of the stable and saw that the cake was still there. She laughed dryly to herself. Her stomach grumbled and mouth watered again. The bouquet of spices and sweets was too much for her self control. She took a piece of cake, a piece covered in poppy seeds then popped it into her mouth. Her whole inside lit up like a Christmas Tree on Christmas morning. A pleasant heat radiated from the pit of her stomach as soon as it made it down. Not even the bitter winter cold could penetrate it.
It was lovely, braving the peppermint winter until she came to the house. That pleasant holiday heat smoldered into a lusty heat. It was embarrassing to be around her family while having these sensual feelings. Her pussy was so much on fire it was itchy. Her whole family was getting ready to go to 7pm Christmas Eve Mass but Glenna knew she wouldn't be able to survive 4 hours of worshipping the birth of Christ without riding the first dick she saw in the middle of the sermon.
The only way you could miss an Irish Mass in a Catholic Irish family was if you were close to death or even dead. Glenna managed her fever well enough, her skin was so hot it almost seared her grandmother's hand. Grateful for the respite, she dressed for bed while her relatives went out into the cold to go to Christmas Eve Mass. She was so horny her body was one giant ache. She pulled on her flannel shirt leaving off the pants and keeping her cotton panties. Her body shook with a cold sweat but she couldn't sleep naked in a house full of family members. She crawled into bed, tunneled underneath the covers and tried to go to sleep but after an hour of erotic heat pulsating through her system she gave up and shoved her hand down into her panties.
Maybe if she orgasmed enough times she'd fall asleep. She was 24 years old and had never been this horny before. As Glenna circled her slippery nub with rapid strokes of her fingers she couldn't shake this feeling of expectation; this sense that something was about to happen because she had eaten that cake. Her other hand pulled at her flannel shirt, the buttons twisting free allowing her to cup her her plump breast, feeling it pulse with life. Her breathing grew more labored as she flicked at her nipple and sunk two fingers into her hungry pussy. Her juices greased her palm and the inside of her thighs. Her inner muscles spasmed, clenching around her pumping digits in a velvet clasp. Her vision clouded as her heart hammered and breathing thinned. Suddenly stars burst in her eyes and her back arched off the bed. As she drifted off to sleep she could have sworn she heard a horse braying and the soft pulsing beat of wings. Then her world sunk into a dark oblivion.
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A pair of masculine lips covered her mouth, forming to the lush contours of her lips. She knew it was a man by the scrape of stubble against her cheeks. A hard body pressed into her. Velvety skin branding her as it slid against her. Silken body hair caressing her tender erogenous zones. The kiss was smoldering. It was bone-tingling. When his tongue slipped against her lips Glenna opened them. Her toes curled at the sweep of his tongue in her mouth.
A dark taste of spicy nutmeg and sweet gingerbread hit her senses. She wanted to wrap her arms around him. Glenna moaned with the urgency as her arms came around nothing but shadows and air. That's when she woke up. Her body ached as if she had just run around the stable 10 times. She looked at the clock. Only an hour had passed. Her mouth felt so dry. She climbed out of bed and pulled on a pair of thick red and green woolen socks her great-aunt had made her.
Glenna went down stairs to make herself some tea. When she got to the kitchen she heard a knock at the door. Three firm consecutive knocks. The only neighbors were the McGowens and they lived 3 miles away. They would be at the Mass though with the rest of the county. Still Glenna went to the door, passing the lit Candle in the Window that shimmered luminously, reflected in the cold black of the window pane, beckoning with its small yet comforting light. She opened the door but no one was there. Just snow glinting in the moonlight and whispering winds.
She shrugged then went back inside. But no sooner did she take three steps from the threshold when she heard the three even knocks again. Glenna went back and opened the door stepping out onto the cold porch in her thick woolen socks. Again no one was there. Shadows danced in the moonlight, a frosty breeze whispered through the barren branches of trees. She felt a chill, not from the cold but from a preternatural awareness. Someone was watching her. It was like a touch almost giving her goosebumps up along her limbs as she rubbed them vigorously as if to rub away the feeling. Glenna quickly went back inside but once again she didn't get far before she heard three more even knocks.