hayli🍬

just some little thoughts about them…

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Thinking about the night you signed a contract with the lightkeeper always caused an odd feeling in your stomach. It would be weird if you didn’t—you practically signed your life and pixie dust away to the hands of a fae you’d just met. Your dust shined beautifully at night, quite beneficial for navigating Nod Krai in search and destruction of the Wild Hunt phenomenon.

It was a mutually beneficial contract. You’ve got a protector and a lantern to live in and food to cater to a fairy diet. Not many people can abstain from meat for long or go in search of different leaves and flowers and fruits and nuts for you. Flins can and will though.

Sometimes you’d perch on his shoulder as he did rounds through the graveyards. You’d talk about anything and everything with Flins, and he often indulged in a little banter now and again. You glow brighter whenever this happens. He’s taken notice of that.

Once in an especially heated battle, you fell out of his lantern and severely damaged your wings as enemies all surrounded you. You’d never seen Flins as tense and careful as he was when tending to your wounds. A letter to his friends in Nasha Town and soon his lantern was modified with stronger material and a lock that works from the inside.

Despite all this your relationship started rocky. In the past you were an independent fairy. You couldn’t accept you needed help from a fae to survive, and that he’d require your precious dust regularly. You often tried to sabotage him in the beginning in rather petty ways. A little extra salt in the food when he wasn’t looking. His Ratnik pins often went missing. You hid whenever you knew he needed your dust, snickering in your corner like a little rat.

He wore calmness like a regular coat. Quietly looking for his pins, tolerating the salty dinners, softly calling your name as he walked and searched for you around his home. You were never scorned or rebuked. Eventually you felt bad.

He always talks to you politely, and makes sure to smile in your presence. Your meals are always different as he experiments with different plants and fruits, but always tasty. Your lantern is warm and clean, your never jostled in there (aside from that one time…) He takes you to the town to interact with humans and learn the new cultures of Nod Krai.