VISUAL PROMPT

Submitted by Katelyn Jane

Write a short story where humans are the mythical beings.

Music To A Pixie’s Ears

Jade stares up in wonder, hiding behind the bloom of a dandelion. She’s looking at a human! Can you believe that she found a human, just out and about? She stays hidden, not wanting to disturb the creature. She was getting tired, her wings straining to stay floating, but she wanted to keep watching.


The human is a female, with warm brown skin and dark brown textured hair. She seems to be gathering pieces of vegetation, probably to eat. Unlike pixies, the mythical humans eat vegetation and also other animals because they’re omnivores. This one is covered by a layer of white fabric from chest to thigh, and is carrying a wooden basket. Humans like to cover themselves with cloth made from cotton plants, which is a big mystery to pixies. Why cover your skin?


She starts humming a slow tune, and swaying as she walks with her basket propped against her right hip. The tune sounds magical, and jade finds herself wishing she could hear humans creation of ‘music’. She’s heard stories from her family of pixies passing by humans encampments at night and seeing humans grouping together and playing their inventions that create melodical processions called music. Humans do love their inventions.


The human continues, probably done with her gathering. She hums her tune, which is building in complexity. Jade stares as she walks down a path and farther into the woods. Jade soon loses sight of her, sad that she won’t be able to hear the rest of that piece of music, Jade thinks her uncle said they call it a song?


She flies up in the air, hoping to get one last glance at the human leaving. Instead she just hears the last tidbit of the song, before it fades away just like the human. Jade smiles softly, pushing her blonde hair behind her ears. She hopes she will be able to see a human again sometime soon, maybe even a group of them. She’d die to see an actually group of human with instruments, was that called a bund? No! A band!


Jade’s family doesn’t agree with her intense interest in humans, but she doesn’t really care. How could she not be interested? There’s so much pixies don’t know about humans, so much she wants to find out. As she starts her flight home, she wonders where she should venture to see a human next. This time she didn’t go to far from the cove, not wanting to test her luck to soon. But it went so well this time! She saw the human female and heard her song, all without ever being seen! She didn’t seem violent like any of the bad stories she’s heard of humans. Jade couldn’t imagine a human acting so brutal, not when they create such beautiful things like music. She wouldn’t stop looking until she could hear real music, instruments and all.

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