Anyway, I have to share an excerpt just to give you a taste of it. It hasn't gone through all the editing processes yet, but here goes:
Excerpt:
Gelsey ate with vigor, all strength and
courage returning to her. When she’d washed down her meal with pure spring
water, the queen touched her wing to catch her attention. Some fairies danced
in the center of the room, the banquet reaching fever pitch. The queen must have
chosen the noisiest moment to give her the commission.
“You are to enter the human world…as a
human.”
Gelsey blinked, her wings trembling against
her back. Five fairies had entered the human world and only one had come back
safe, having succeeded in her commission. Two others had remained human, and
the last one had been killed.
“I don’t understand….”
“You are a young fairy who has an amazing
ability to calm down the most frightened bird or insect. I believe you will be as
suitable for this commission as you are beautiful and humble. You know you
aren’t perfect. Someone humble enough to admit her weaknesses would be just
right for the human world. You won’t lose your personality at all when you take
your new form. You won’t even lose your wings. They will merely remain dormant.
You will be divested of some of your
powers, though. But your power to calm down the distressed will remain. That
power will enable you to succeed in your commission.”
“What am I to do?”
“You are to marry a man for a year. You will
find out why the humans want love and sex but not children. As you may have
learned in your studies at nature school, homo sapiens reproduce differently to
fairies. They reproduce by sex between a male and female. But the species have
devised several means to prevent babies from being formed in the female body
even though they continue to have sex. This has lowered the reproduction rate
of the creatures who are important for the balance of the earth, specifically
in South Africa. For this purpose, I want you to enter into their world and feel
what they feel. You are to know what it is to love a male human with their type
of love. You will go at the first break of spring and will be able to return
home at the start of the following spring. We will give you your own vial of
fairy dust. The gold dust should be used only twice. The first time is when you
find a suitable man to marry. When you find someone who is single and who cares
about the balance of nature, you must sprinkle the fairy dust on his head. The
magic will make him want to marry you. Once the magic has worked, you cannot
find another man. He is the one for you. If you mistakenly don’t choose a
single man, you will get one more chance.”
Gelsey’s wings beat against her back until
they ached. Become a human and marry one? How would she know what to do? And a
whole year? She would miss out on spring. It had been a long, cold winter, and
she wouldn’t get to see or hear all the new baby birds or play with the flying
ants when the rains came.
“The second time you should use the fairy
dust is to come home. You are to sprinkle the dust on the man you have chosen
to make him turn away from you. He will forget every instant shared with you.
He will forget his marriage, and so will everyone he knows. Then you can come
home without arousing any suspicion. Ziana will explain where you are to go and
what job you will take on in the human world to make you fit in there. You have
a month to find this man you are to wed. While you are married to him, you need
to find out from him or anyone else you meet, like other females, the reason
for the humans not wanting as many children. You are to research your own
emotions and those of the male’s, and work out what is happening to humans to
change their future.”
“What if I don’t find anything of
importance?”
“By becoming one of them, you will
automatically understand how they think and what is happening in their hearts.
Although you may not comprehend in the beginning, marrying a male human will
help you to understand. Well, that’s what we believe.”
Gelsey wasn’t so sure. The queen had much
more wisdom than the general fairy, but what if she didn’t know everything?
Fairies knew little of the human world. They had never understood humans and
their strange behaviors.
“If you succeed at your commission, you
will be promoted to Head Endangered Animal earth fairy for South Africa.”
Gelsey gasped. To be able to save an animal
from extinction had been her dream for years. But could she fulfill this
commission?
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