Glitter, the Adventures of a Fairy. The Fairy Trilogy - Volume I E-Book

Stefano Carloni

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

A little fairy, born in an English forest, decides to explore the world. She will meet humans and get involved in their lives, she will learn to love, to hate and to suffer, and she will discover how what dephts of evil and good can dwell in a heart, however small it may be.

Leseprobe

INDEX

I. A GLOBETROTTING FAIRY

Chapter I: Charlie

Chapter II: Battle Angel

Chapter III: Good intentions

Chapter IV: Descent into Hell

Chapter V: Redemption

Chapter VI: Grand Tour

Chapter VII: Home

II. A FAIRY IN THE

Chapter I: Foreigner

Chapter II: Research

Chapter III: Exams

Chapter IV: Nemesis

Chapter V: The dragon's breath

III. THE RETURN TO THE FOREST OF DEAN

Chapter I: Farewells

Chapter II: The shepherd and the canary

Chapter III: New friends

Chapter IV: Action!

Chapter V: End and Beginning

Stefano Carloni

GLITTER, THE ADVENTURES OF A FAIRY

The Fairy Trilogy - Volume I

Titolo | Glitter, the Adventures of a Fairy. The Fairy Trilogy - Volume I

Autore | Stefano Carloni

ISBN | 9788831641159

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I. A GLOBETROTTING FAIRY

CHAPTER I: CHARLIE

"Wake up, sleepyhead! It's time for your astronomy lesson!"

"Mmmmmmh, wait a little longer, Charlie," murmured Glitter "it's so nice lying in the sun...".

"No-no-no-no-no" he sang, shaking his head and waving a stick. "Children learn best when they have a regular study schedule."

"Fine," she grumbled, opening her eyes and standing up straight to her total height of three inches. She spread her blue wings, rose into the air and looked at the young man. "I am ready, teacher."

"First question: shape and diameter of the Earth".

Tsk, thought Glitter, this is easy. "The Earth is a sphere that is squashed at the poles. The length of the diameter, measured on the Paris meridian, is forty million French metres".

"This was easy," replied Charlie, "but how many miles is that?"

"Twenty-four thousand eight hundred and forty!" she chanted.

"Good," he said, patting her little head. "You learn quickly and remember everything, Glitter."

***

"Who are you?" The sound of his voice had surprised her as she was smelling a beautiful flower. She turned around and saw him leaning over her. He was big, very big - later she would learn that at the time he was just a child. He had looked at her with curious eyes and repeated, "Who are you?"

How can I understand him? "I...I am the Rose Fairy," she whispered.

"You are so beautiful, Rose Fairy!" he exclaimed. And how can he understand me? Then he introduced himself, "My name is Charles... Charles John Huffam Dickens. But you can call me Charlie, if you want."

"I do... Charlie". From that day on, they were friends.

When he went to work at the "factory", he locked her in a box and took her with him, and he did the same when he went back to "school". Charlie had taught her to read, write and count, and had given her lessons in history, geography, astronomy and mathematics. He was the one who called her Glitter, because, he said, "your wings shine with all the colours of the rainbow."

The day he got his first paycheck, they went to celebrate in Portsmouth. "Look, Glitter! That is the sea!"

She had never seen so much water all in one place, stretched out as far as she could see. "It is so beautiful! What are you going to do now?".

"I'll go for a swim" he replied, taking off his jacket and shirt. One minute later he was soaking. "If you want to wash yourself properly, you have to take off your trousers too," she said, "Come on, I'll help you..."

"No, leave it!" Charlie had shouted trying to stop her. She hadn't listened to him, she had pulled them down and... she saw that thing. She touched it and it stiffened ...

"Don't look! Turn around!" he shouted red in the face, covering it with his hands.

"Why are you treating me like this? I didn't do anything wrong."

"B...Because I am a man, and you are a woman! Now turn around!"

He hadn't spoken to her for two days, then he asked her, "Do you want to see what men and women do together?" She nodded enthusiastically; she always liked to see the animals in the forest mate and bring forth their children.

The House of Orchids was one of the many brothels in London, and not even the most infamous. "Hello, boy" he was welcomed by a woman who looked older than she was. "Have you come to enjoy yourself?"

"Yes," he said a little uncertainly, "I have heard good things about a girl named Janine...".

"Ah, I'm sorry," she said, accompanying him into the corridor. "Janine is not available tonight... It's her time of the month... and I certainly don't want you getting her pregnant on me, you know? Here," and she pointed at a raven-haired girl, "this is Claire, she will be great for you... One pound and six pence for half an hour, payment in advance."

Claire took him by the hand and led him into a room dimly lit by a candle. "What do you keep in that box? Your lucky animal?"

"Something like that," Charlie replied, placing it on a small shelf. "Is it bothering you?"

"No... as long as you don't want to play weird games," she answered with a smile and started undressing.

***

In the beginning, there was light. A blinding light. Then the light became colour, so many colours. Finally the colours became things, colourful things. And so she was born, inside a flower with large red petals. She looked around and saw lots of winged creatures looking at her. One of them stepped forward and spoke to her.

"Welcome to the world, new Rose Fairy. I am the Queen Fairy, the oldest of the community, and these are your sisters." Then she nodded to a creature with large white wings, "Lily Fairy, I entrust her to you."

"I won't let you down, Queen Fairy," the Lily Fairy replied.

She didn't know how much time she had spent in that forest because at the time she didn't know numbers. At first it was all beautiful and interesting. The Lily Fairy had shown her every meadow, fountain and hidden ravine. She had shown her that she could speak the languages of all animals and that she could tame them if they threatened her.

Then the days had become boring, each seemed the same as the one before... One day in the middle of the assembly she said "I want to see what's outside of here."

"Outside of here there are humans," the Queen Fairy replied.

"What are humans?" she asked.

"They are the most fascinating and terrible thing that exists."

"I want to meet them," she insisted.

"If you meet them, you will never come back to us."

"Why?" she had challenged her. She smiled sadly.

"Because they will take your heart."

***

On the 2nd of April 1836, Charlie came home with a woman. This was already an absolute novelty; usually he went to them. Even more surprising was his decision to leave her outside in the garden.

"Why can't I watch?" Glitter asked.

"Because Catherine is my wife," he replied, closing the window and pulling the curtains. That night she fell asleep crying.

The next day he came looking for her, as he always did. "Now that you have a wife, will you cast me out?" she asked.

"Don't talk nonsense" he replied. "Do you know what the great Demosthenes used to say? We need wives to have children, prostitutes for bodily pleasures, and mistresses for spiritual pleasures".

"And I'm your... mistress?"