In a hole in the ground there lived a...

Neirai the Forgiven

Christian Guilds List Manager
In a hole in the ground there lived a small, red girl.

She wasn't all red, mind you, just her head. The long, stringy stuff that grew on it.
 
It had only been lost once, briefly, during the great mud flood. Her mother had been wearing it when the gully they lived in then had collapsed.
 
Oddly enough, the clip was found by her mother during the very next rainy season. Her mother had been racing home and stopped under the old willow tree to escape the worst of a sudden downpour.
 
The little girl never knew whether to accredit this discovery to angels or to faeries; the two peoples being ever at odds and capricious at best. Her mother claimed it was the work of fate or of luck, but the girl knew better.
 
For she herself had a faerie friend, or at least as much of a friend one could have with such a fickle and secretive being.
 
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