Greenling
“Go now. Go back to your friends. One day, alright? For now, they need you, and you need them.”
Severo began to back away down the hall, resolve strengthening his features, until he looked almost to be the same man I had known as a child. I wiped away the last of my tears as I stared after him; then without even thinking, I struck the pose which opened into the dance he had taught me, the Dance of the Faeries.
His eyes widened like saucers before he opened his mouth in the most gleeful grin I’d ever seen on a person before. And then he was gone, vanished around the corner into the Hall, like the ghost of a pleasant dream which once brought love into my life.