{"id":83,"date":"2013-09-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2013\/09\/05\/5-a-purple-pixie-pesters-cousin-hadi\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:00:00","slug":"5-a-purple-pixie-pesters-cousin-hadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2013\/09\/05\/5-a-purple-pixie-pesters-cousin-hadi\/","title":{"rendered":"5. A Purple Pixie Pesters Cousin Hadi"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Unfinished Song: Initiate<\/i><\/a>\"\"<\/i><\/p>\n
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“Purple Faery” by Arwen Robertson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Dindi<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2026 the laces to his legwals. While Dindi tried to guess what the fae was up to, the pixie untied two pairs of laces on either of Hadi\u2019s legs, then retied the wrong strings together. Meanwhile, another pixie buzzed around his ear to distract him. Though Hadi couldn\u2019t see the fae, and couldn\u2019t make out the words, he could hear the hum of pixie voices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou little fiends!\u201d Hadi waved his spear. \u201cI know you\u2019re here somewhere! I\u2019ll get you!\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cHadi, don\u2019t…!\u201d<\/div>\n
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When Hadi tried to lunge, he tripped because his calves were tied together. He fell face first into the moist soil.<\/div>\n
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\u201cYou mucky faeries!\u201d He pounded the mud where he\u2019d fallen. The pixies cheered and jumped up and down on his back while congratulating each other on their victory over the foe.<\/div>\n
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Puddlepaws pounced on the pixie. Very proud of himself, he held the pixie by the back of its little tunic and brought it to Dindi.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBad kitty! Bad kitty!\u201d cried the pixie.<\/div>\n
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Dindi scooped up the kitten, freed the pixie, and shouted back over her shoulder, as she took off down the row of maize, \u201cI\u2019ll just go on ahead.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cDindi! You are not to leave my sight!\u201d He squirmed in the mud but only managed to dig himself into a shallow trench. \u201cDindi! Dindi, get back here this instant! I\u2019m in charge of you!\u201d<\/div>\n
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She just laughed. The empty basket bounced on her back as she ran. The fae followed Dindi in a cloud.<\/div>\n
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\u201cCome dance with us! Come dance with us!\u201d they urged in a babble of flute voices.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI can\u2019t this afternoon, friends,\u201d Dindi apologized. \u201cI have to gather soap roots, tallow and ash to make soap and pick and juice blueberries, all by middle meal.\u201d<\/div>\n
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A purple pixie fragile as a butterfly, landed on Dindi\u2019s shoulder. She twined her tiny lavender hands in Dindi\u2019s black hair.<\/div>\n
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\u201cChores are boring, Dindi,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s why they call them chores.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t let those humans tire you out, Dindi,\u201d chided a green pixie. He landed on Dindi\u2019s other shoulder. A red shoved him off and claimed the shoulder for his own. That enraged the purple, who raced over Dindi\u2019s nose to attack the red pixie. All this activity excited Puddlepaws, who squirmed in Dindi\u2019s arms. She kept her grip firm on the furry pixie-hunting predator.<\/div>\n
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\u201cDo you mind?\u201d Dindi said. \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to walk when you\u2019re using me as a battleground.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cThen come dance with us!\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cYes, yes!\u201d agreed a yellow dandelion sprite. He parted the corn stalks to skip at Dindi\u2019s feet. \u201cYou dance with us and in exchange, we\u2019ll do your chores for you.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cMm. Just like you milked the bull for me and winnowed the sugar out of the gravel for me, and wove a sitting mat I was to give to Uncle Lubo out of prickly pear thorns?\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u201cFriends,\u201d the green pixie said to the others, \u201canyone would think she wasn\u2019t grateful for all our help.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cImpossible.\u201d The purple one\u2026<\/div>\n
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TO BE CONTINUED<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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