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I tucked my youngest in bed and kissed my husband goodnight. I should probably clarify that I remarried after my first marriage to a wonderful kind man, who has shown me what it is truly like to have a human partner.

After I allowed myself to silently say goodbye I slipped out of my body and went to Carrymore in Ireland the stone circle there used to offer some protection from the fae. It had a spot in the middle where the majority of their spells could not penetrate. Oberon had built it for interrogation. If the one being questioned tried to run he would have spells placed around it that caused him or her pain but if they stayed in the circle they would be safe as even his spells did not penetrate it. Most stayed in the circle until Oberon's temper dissipated. That's why he eventually abandoned the practice. He found it easier just to wield his power and not listen to any explanations.

Anyway I thought this might offer me some protection if Una wasn't happy to see me. That way I wouldn't have to defend myself and possibly hurt her. So I found the center of the stones and drew on the residual energy to rebuild the structure with my power and reconnect that protection spell strengthening it with my own power.

I opened my book and found the page of the spell. I lit the brown candles I had bought with me and then the white one. I then allowed the book to speak the words

thig dhòmhsa

thig dhòmhsa

And cleared my mind of all thought but Una's image. I opened my eyes expecting to see her before me.

But it wasn't her it was an elf maiden. She looked terrified. She was just staring at me in awe. I told her in Elvin that I would not harm her. I asked why she had come as I had called for Queen Una. She didn't correct me on the prefix of Queen when I spoke of Una. So at least that had come true for her.

After a moment or two she finally answered me. She said Queen Una had sent her because she had felt something in my spell that reminded her of someone she used to know. So I guess that was good. Una felt some connection to me but perhaps she wasn't sure if it was me. The handmaiden, whose name was Aria, confirmed this thought. She said no she didn't know who it was she just believed whoever was calling wasn't an enemy. So I asked why hadn't she come and she said Oberon has forbidden anyone from the royalty to leave their land and had cast a spell to make it so. There has been too many strange things happening and he is concerned for their safety. I said without thinking that must be why all the legions are in training.

She turned quickly and stared at me in fear again. How do I know that the legions have been called she whispered. I tried to calm her but I could see that I wasn't getting anywhere with her. So I reversed the spell and sent her home. I gently erased her memory of me before she left. She wouldn't remember anything of our encounter as if she had never left Tir Na Nog.

I sat there for a while thinking about what Aria had said. It cannot just be my kind disappearing. Otherwise Oberon would never have grounded all the royals. I know some of them would have been very unhappy about this. Of course some of them wouldn't care at all they never left Tir Na Nog and found humans to be annoying creatures.

I decided to try one more time using some of my own power as well as Fae magic.

thig dhòmhsa

thig dhòmhsa

I opened my eyes and there she was the beautiful Una. But to my surprise she looked just as much in awe as Aria did.

I said hello to her in Elvin and told her I was so glad she had answered me call. She looked around her then. She then turned back to me. Her face showed shock and awe. She was just staring at me. I felt really uncomfortable and said so. I asked her to please say something. I was getting worried that somehow this new power had hurt her in transit to the circle.

Then she spoke;

She said in a very shaky voice, "Is that you Ash?"

She knew who I was. That was a shortening of my original name Ashtoreth in Greece at the time I met her. She is one of the only ones who called me that. We had become quite close at that time. Spending a considerable amount of time together in Tir Na Nog. Attending balls together, learning spells together and hunting. We sat up many nights talking philosophy and drinking ale. She was part of the reason I left the Greek to allow them to grow into an independent functioning society. Not one reliant on false gods. She actually petitioned the legions to do the same. Our father had already left and stopped meddling in their lives. She felt we all should do the same. She explained that if it was our duty to watch and direct these souls to the right choices to move on. Then using them for our enjoyment should not be any part of that. Of course she stated those sentiments much more eloquently, with kindness, love and respect. To my surprise even the most difficult of my kind listened and agreed to her request. As I stated before she was kind, calm, intelligent and trustworthy. Not many supernaturals are all of these.

Her reaction to my sight of such fear hurt me. Of course she seemed to be composing herself quickly. But I could still see fear in her emerald green eyes.

I asked her why she was afraid she knew me. She must have known I would never harm her. Her answer took me back. She asked me when was the last time I had viewed myself in my true form as I stood before her today.

I answered that she knew I did not like vanity so obviously it had been a very long time. I asked her why? She then produced a mirror image of myself in the circle. Now it was my turn to be shocked.

It hurt my eyes to look at the image she projected. My ethereal body glowed so bright with power. I could barely see the shape of my body it seemed to be almost made up completely of energy. My dark brunette hair seemed to have numerous silver highlights running through it. My eyes once brown, now shone like chocolate diamonds. I subconsciously wrapped my wings around me thinking it would dim the startling light emanating from my body. But they were a shock in themselves, where they once were white feathers tipped in a steel like substance. Now they were white with silver running through the feathers ending with what seemed to be diamond tips.

She saw the shock on my face and almost immediately relaxed. She said incredulously you truly hadn't noticed your appearance.

It took me several moments to answer her. I told her she knew how I was. I become very focused on my purpose and don't notice things that occur to myself. She nodded she had seen me after an elf training exercise once, coming in with my arm barely attached to my body dripping blood all over the castle floors and I hadn't noticed. She had stopped me and made me heal myself then clean up the mess. I wasn't happy about the later but once again she explained it in a way you couldn't say no.

She took the mirror image manifestation away and asked me if there was anyway I could dim the light emanating from the power running through me. I was just trying to think of how I could and wishing I could just disappear from her sight, as it seemed to be causing her pain, when the light began to dim around me. I realized that must have been why I hadn't noticed the glow before, any other time I had been in my true form: I hadn't wanted to be seen. Obviously the glow dimmed whenever I was trying not to be seen. But looking down at my ethereal body I could see that although it dimmed that strange glow was still very much there like a silvery light under the skin.

Una was just standing there smiling at me. I could see her eyes were still wary but she was trying to put me at ease after my shock of seeing my ethereal image.

She asked me how did I bring her to the circle, as Oberon's spell shouldn't have allowed her to exit Tir Na Nog. I explained that I had just strengthened the fae spell with my own power. She asked how much power had I strengthened it with and I answered a very small trickle because of some things that had happened recently I had been concerned about using too much.

She just raised one eyebrow and looked at me. She then proceeded to ask me what had I done to her maiden Aria. I said nothing all I had done was use a forgetting spell so she wouldn't remember meeting me and sent her home. I asked her why, what happened is she ok?

She told me that Aria had appeared only moments after she had left her and consequently passed out. Her hair had a beautiful silver streak running through it down the right side of her head. She had investigated it and it appeared to be pure silver flowing from her head. When Aria awoke she didn't remember anything of the last day and couldn't explain anything let alone her hair turning silver. She had been about to call Oberon; when she was pulled through the planes with such force she couldn't breath and felt like she may be crushed from the speed and energy surrounding her. Then she had arrived in the circle and I was standing in front of her. She asked if her hair had turned silver at all. I looked and sure enough there was one fairly thick stripe of silver running through her hair.

I was kind of frightened to tell her. The fae royalty were very particular on their look. All I could think of was what if she didn't like it. I had never been on her bad side but from what I had heard it wasn't a good place to be. But if I didn't tell her and she found it later...I had a feeling that would be worse.

So I bit the bullet so to speak and told her. Her only reaction was a loud audible sigh. She then turned to me and said I had better tell her everything.

So I began from the beginning explaining my decision to become human. My human life, my children and my grandchildren. She interrupted me then and said "Wow, Ash you are a mother?" Her face held pure joy all over it. She said she never imagined me having children. She was genuinely happy for me. I showed her images of my children and family. She loved hearing about them all; you could see it in her eyes.

My children have been the greatest gift of this adventure. Just the little things they do. I remember my oldest daughter at just under two, asking me why, for the hundredth time one day. All of you as parents remember this stage in their lives. Anyway I had answered her with, well why is the earth round? She didn’t even skip a beat and answered me with, because we have to have night and day Mummy. Like I was silly to even ask that question. That quick answer made my day.

They have always brought me such joy even through the troubling teenage years. As those of you who are parents can attest, those times are definitely a trial. I love talking about them but I really hadn't wanted to tell her about them because I hadn't wanted anyone to know about them in the supernatural world. Unfortunately I knew that hiding them from her would be dishonoring her friendship and if I was to gain her trust. I had to be 100% honest so she would never doubt me.

She said she was glad that her spells were helping to protect them and hoped to someday be able to meet them but for now I had best continue my story.

I continued explaining that even though I had never unbound my powers, I had felt them being released by my father not so long ago. I had heard his voice speak the words to release the bond. I couldn't remember exactly when. I told her I had not used my powers after this in my human life and it was a short time after this that I had felt my brothers and sisters dissipate and then disappear entirely from my telepathic reach. I had become worried and had decided to investigate.

I stopped for a second to see if she would comment on that. But she didn't so I continued. I went through all that I had done since my first visit to the ethereal plane until she finally appeared in front of me.

She had sat down while I talked and when I finished talking she just sat there still. I waited somewhat impatiently.

She finally spoke. She said that I was right to be concerned. That Morgana had disappeared before anything else had happened in either of our worlds. Oberon had called for Michael and myself. When only Michael had appeared both the fae and my brothers and sisters had searched for me. They had concluded that whatever had happened to Morgana must have happened to me. Michael was a mess. Galadriel had petitioned the Valor to take him to the fae-blessed realm to bring him back from despair. They had agreed as the fae council held Michael in high regard for all he had done for the fae.. But that's another story that will have to wait for another day. When he came back he was solid but not the same. I interrupted her then and asked who had looked after Hov while he was gone. I couldn't imagine the Valor allowing him to come to the blessed realm. The fae never liked any of Gna's kind or anything to do with their magic.

She laughed then; it was such a magical sound and said of course not he had stayed with Loki in the human realm. This information shocked me a little, as Michael leaving the care of someone so special to him to Loki seemed a little strange. Although on second thought, Loki did love animals. He certainly would do his best to never harm one, so perhaps it was a logical choice and Hov did love him. So I guess it made some sense. Perhaps the relationship between Michael and Loki had grown a little since I last saw them...

I did ask when Loki had returned from Nibiru and she told me it was a few years before this incident. She said no one had missed me during this time. She guessed they had just presumed I was with whoever they weren't. She was ashamed that she had not even noticed or thought anything of the coincidence that no one had seen me since Loki had left. She said she couldn't have missed me at her wedding in case I was wondering because Oberon had forbidden anyone but fae to attend. Relationships between our kind has always been on again and off again. So I presumed it was off again at that time. I put her at ease saying we live such long lives it isn't unusual for us not to be seen for centuries; so a human lifetime..it was not surprising that no one noticed my absence. It was actually something I was counting on when I decided to become human.

I apologized for not checking on her and I hoped married life was agreeing with her. She smiled with a glow on her face and said it was wonderful. I promised to send a present to her and Red as soon as I was able. She bowed her head and said it was not necessary my thoughts were enough. She is such a beautiful being inside and out that comment just reminded me of that.

I asked her to continue with what had been occurring as obviously I felt like somehow I was supposed to do something about it. She agreed on the later so continued telling me of the events I had missed.

Apparently it was several months after Morgana disappeared that the first of our kind was taken. It was Brap, though not one of the hierarchies he was skilled at finding metals and was used by both our kind and the fae to find whatever metal we needed. He didn't have any other duties other than that.

According to her Oberon felt he was a greater loss to her kind as we had taken him for granted only calling on him when needed. They had respected and loved him. Including him in their lives. Perhaps she was right. We have stopped looking out for each other and socializing together. Considering nobody had noticed me not being around until Morgana was taken. We should be more observant of each other, considering we are supposed to be watching out for humanity. Perhaps watching out for each other should become a directive as well.

She continued to explain that after this incident Oberon had grounded all royalty. The wizards were sent for and were tasked with finding out what had happened.

Several months later they still didn't seem to have an answer. They reported that they could still feel a faint thread of Morgana’s life force in the human realm.

Then Michael had returned to them and said that several of his brothers and sisters had been taken. He was very concerned. He said there seemed to be massive amounts of our power being collected but he could not trace the locality. Every time he went to a position that he had centered on, it was gone when he arrived. The only thing he had been able to see through telepathy was a curtain of heliotrope or bloodstone in what he thought was feather shaped patterns. He also spoke of a growling sound.

This is all that I had seen when I had been able to connect to San during him being taken. I had not noticed that the bloodstone looked feather like in appearance but looking back...he was probably right.

She said there had been two others of the fae taken recently. One was a keeper of records and the other a wizard. Both were in the human world when it happened. That is when Raziel had come to stay in Valinor. Oberon had agreed to this as the knowledge he had collected over the years of the fae is not something they wished to share with anyone. Oberon helped Raziel hide the library of records in Eden so that no one would find it. That is why I wouldn't have been able to find the entry in Eden, or Raziel for that matter. I hadn't searched the fae realm. At least I knew now he was safe.

Oberon had then called the legions into training as Raziel counseled him too. He felt that whatever is occurring with the loss of my brothers and sisters was only the beginning and the fae should do everything in their power to prepare for the worst.

She then told me that when I had visited Valinor I had caused a great turmoil. Because I was right, they had seen me even with the cloak on. The only thing they saw was a silver flash of light appearing to shoot into the sky then dissipates into nothing. They were perplexed but not frightened when they sent the first legion to investigate. It had only been when I had created the energy form that they had become concerned. They had followed it out the exit and then had seen the tree almost immediately transforming before their eyes. Larimor was that legions captain and he had appeared before Legolas very shaken explaining what had occurred. That entire legion now had silver highlights in their hair. But Larimor had veins of silver running up his arms. He had touched the tree while it was obviously absorbing my power.

Legolas had gone to try and investigate the tree but the entry was now a solid silver line reaching towards the sky. He had also touched the vein and his hand was almost a solid glow of silver.

The wizards had been called and they said that the power used was pure light energy. There was no negative energy in it. They had never seen anything like it but Raziel said he had. Apparently on Nibiru some of the buildings are made of this exact compound. He believed our Father made them. But he said the energy did not feel exactly the same it was lighter and slightly softer.

Oberon was extremely angry. He said if our Father had sent someone to his land without introduction and then closed one of his gates killing a gate tree! Well let's just say he was severely insulted.

Raziel had taken his wrath and tried hard to explain that no one had seen our Father on earth for centuries. Perhaps whoever this force was, was not acting on direct orders from him. He had said he knew no one of our kind that could perform such magic. But Oberon had not been sated. The travel ban was reinforced and all of our kind was to appear before him if they requested entry.

After this we both sat there for a while not speaking. I eventually broke the silence and asked if their wizards still felt that all who had been taken where still alive somewhere. She said that at this time that is what they believe they could feel a small spark from each who had been taken but could not trace it, with their magic or Raziels.

She then turned to me and said that after what I had just told her perhaps my Father had given me these extraordinary powers to fight whatever is attacking us all.

I said that seems to be the only conclusion I can come to. But I didn't want to leave my human life to take this on full time. So where should I go from here.

She suggested that I should reveal myself to Michael. She felt it would be the right thing to do. The least it would do is give Michael peace to know I am alive and well. I told her that I was concerned he would ask me to give up my human life. She said and she was right that Michael can ask but cannot order me to do so. Only our Father could and she believed that since he had obviously given me this power in my human form that is not what he had wanted.

I realized that it was very close to daybreak at home and I should be getting back. I asked her if she can keep our visit a secret and she said she didn't think that would be possible because as soon as she appeared in Tir Na Nog she will be called to Oberon.

No fae can keep a secret from Oberon especially with everyone on high alert after I had killed the tree. She was upset about that but understood why I had to do it. She also said thank you for blessing the tree and giving it back to the earth.

I didn't want to erase her memory of me and I told her so. She asked how much fae magic do I still have and I told her. She then wrote in my book a spell that would not allow her to speak of me for 7 days. She knew that this would cause chaos in the royal house but she understood why I felt I needed to talk to Michael first. Before King Oberon was informed of me.

She then wrote another spell specific to my human life and my children. She looked so sad but said it is best that you erase my knowledge of them for now. She believed it to be the best for their protection. She was grateful I had told her about them but felt that the fae didn't need to know about them just yet. She had tears in her eyes.

I hugged her then until that moment I had not touched her. She flinched but allowed me to hug her.

Looking at the silver running through her hair I asked if there was anyway she could return to Tir Na Nog safely without my power. She laughed then and said she didn't believe so and she guessed she would have to get used to silver streaks.

I asked her to ask Red for my forgiveness for the streaks when her memory returned. She just smiled but said she would.

Just before I was about to perform the spells she asked me to play my memory of the fight between my Niddhog creation and Aerinar. Her face while it played was purely magical. She loved it. She said thank you for showing her and she hoped that this memory would return to her. She would love to play it for Aerinar sometime. My manifestation of the Niddhog was beautiful. She missed the sight of these creatures as much as I did but not the mess they created.

I performed both spells she had written with the help of the book and sent her home. Then I went to Gocta waterfalls near Cocachimba in Peru. This magnificent waterfall is so beautiful and the water that falls appears to disappear into a gorgeous mist. I needed to feel the waters power and drink of its beauty to relieve the tension that my meeting with Una had created. I cleared my mind of all thought and drank in the beauty that surrounded me. Once I felt strength and composure return I flitted home.

My human self had already risen from slumber but that was ok. Because our entities do not really require sleep that is a human weakness.