Twenty years ago, a young high-born fairy woman named Alouane was kidnapped by a dangerous enemy of her people. Her parents, in a desperate attempt to save her life, bit her and left her on a human child’s doorstep, hoping that the child’s parents would raise her as their own. The enemy, however, discovered the abandoned baby and assaulted her, though he kept her alive. Instead of kidnapping Alouane, he took her parents instead.
For twenty years, Alouane grew up in the human world, unaware that she was a fairy and exposed to all the odds and ends of living among humans. As she grew into a teenage girl, strange things began to happen around her. She was always getting into trouble because she couldn’t resist blurting out whatever the thought that popped into her head, no matter how strange or unnecessary it seemed. When she walked down the sidewalk, cracks would appear in the concrete. Lights dimmed when she entered a room. There were so many odd, unexplainable things that happened around her that she thought it was just her imagination, or perhaps she just liked to play pranks on her family and friends.
Over the years, Alouane met new friends and got into new situations. She fell in love, ascended to a high-born fairy status, and eventually became a mother. One particularly bad day, her youngest son left alone to go to his first day of school in the human world. Alouane though, felt that his first day of school was somehow significant, but she was clueless as to why. While on this particularly bad day, she blushed at an arrival message when the arriving message popped up on her phone’s little screen. She considered ignoring it, but she was really curious to see who was contacting her. The screen showed the number: “1357”.
Worried that something was going on, she called the number. She was shocked when a voice answered. As the message continued (as someone was recording it), it became clear that she was speaking to a faerie demon disguised as a man. He called himself Amadeus and claimed that he escaped his prison because he was too dependent on his imprisonment to the monsters, called the Trync. After thinking of it, he provided the details of his escape, and into the conversation, he brought up the topic of the faerie princess that he had imprisoned in the dungeon and had plans to marry. Alouane, shocked by his talk of her kidnapping and being imprisoned, began questioning him on the details. She felt a driving force to stop this wedding, because it was made clear in their conversation that Amadeus only took her because he wanted to marry and enslave a princess. She found out that she was the princess he was speaking of.
After asking a few clarifying questions to reinforce her knowledge (which laced his lies with truths), and some snide comments, Alouane was able to figure out where the castle was. Amadeus had called her from his castle, which meant that he was at home, and that she would be able to find him there. The wedding was planned to happen the next day – the wedding that she would be trying to prevent. After confirming her knowledge, she suddenly started to doubt her conviction to try and stop the wedding.
That night, Alouane waited until midnight and called all her friends to recap the day’s events. They were shocked to hear that she was the princess who he had planned to marry. You understand by reading the full description of the story that a common theme came through in her friends’ reactions. She explained to them the nature of her beliefs and of her current goals. After telling them about the situation, Alouane began to worry about the wedding that she had to attend. She didn’t know why she was suddenly allowing Amadeus to take control of her actions.
The next day, Alouane’s friends drove her to the mansion of Amadeus’s castle. She got out of the car and approached the gate, feeling scared out of her wits. She was terrified of the worst happening – her son being hurt, taken away from her. The only child that she had left. After taking a deep breath, she told herself that she was going to be okay. She would be okay with their lives as they were, and she wouldn’t change it for anything. After looking around, she decided to dupe Amadeus one last time. She wasn’t going to let her son fall prey to his evil. When she called her friends, they confirmed that the mansion was on fire. Alouane froze for a second, thinking that maybe they were wrong, but they assured her that the mansion was torched. They told her that they saw a bright light coming from the mansion, which confirmed that it was burning. Realizing that her friends were telling the truth, Alouane rushed into the mansion, where it was clear that the fire was caused by Amadeus.
At that moment, she found herself in a twisted, weird place. As if being transported to a bad, science fiction movie, everything was scary-looking. The place itself was weird, with twisted plastic trees and lots of odd objects. The air was thicken with a burning, sweet smell. In the room with the fire, Amadeus stood on a balcony and was laughing to himself. He looked at Alouane and told her that time was running out until the wedding, and that he couldn’t allow her to ruin everything. She looked at the ring on her finger, which was the one that he gifted her the night before to symbolize their engagement.
After burning down the mansion and losing the ring belonging to his princess on the floor, Amadeus stood on the balcony with a cruel smile, and Alouane ran towards him, torching everything in her path in her anger. She had no idea how she lit everything on fire, but after she realized what she had done, she began to hear the screams. Amadeus screamed and told her to stop, which she did for a moment and revoked her powers, the fire abruptly extinguishing. In a single moment, all the people, a hundred or more, who were guarding the castle were revealed. They were all unconscious – literally dragged into the house before the fire could get them.
After a moment staring in shock, a man came running out of an invisible door in the chimney. He looked at them and told them they had to get out of there before he could teleport them all. Alouane told her friends that they had to move everybody, and she knew that she was going to be tasked with carrying all the women and children. She told her friends that she had to leave, and she arrived with a bang with all the other people. She screamed the word, “Epop” so loudly that it penetrated their ears and, for a moment, they all felt disoriented. After a few minutes, they were all back to normal. She looked into her son’s eyes and smiled.
