"Listen up, whenever we take berth at another skyisland, avoid the Fae. One, don't listen to their song. Two, don't dance with them. Three, don't attack them. Four, travel in groups to help ward them off. Everyone got that? Five, for the love of the skies, don't eat their food. We won't lose any member of this crew, and I won't be around in a hundred years to pick you back up."— Captain Davetti
The Neighbor's Beckon
The
fae experience time differently than other living things - especially
humans who cannot escape their internal clocks - and this gift, or curse, can extend to those around them. As creatures that represent the antithesis of civilization, beings of pure wilderness, they don't often interact with the people who build towns and cities. When they do, it is sometimes because they were forced into a confrontation - as happen in
Bral - or because they chose to accept a specific outsider who wandered into their domain.
As they sing and dance, an outsider may be invited to join them for what seems only a brief moment of joy, or to join them for a delicious, sometimes ferine,
meal that ends as quickly as it began. In these situations the
fae have no ill intent, neither knowing about or understanding the consequences on civilized folk as they return to their homes only to realize that decades or even more have passed in the blink of an eye.
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Lost in the Wild
If the
fae are angered or injured they could injure or kill the one who hurt them but often their emotion causes the other to become lost, finding their way in what feels like hours or days but is really much, much longer. This is what is said to have happened in some variation of the story about the
One Who Knows.
Unlike the
One Who Knows, most people who experience it only experience it once, and there are no other stories of those who gained unusual abilities from this. Likely because the
fae also inflicted their
ire upon the
One Who Knows.
"Why does Tamazee have no such stories?"— Takalia
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