“How The Blue Knight Married LadyFair”

“Theedore!”

“Theedore! Wake up!  Theedore!”

The sun was rising and a

Buttery light came in through

The Bedroom window

Of The Inn window.  The fire had

Burnt itself into embers and ash.

Ladyfair was tickling

His ears

with her wings, trying

to wake up The Blue Knight.

The Blue Knight Finally Yawned

And stretched.

“How Long have you been awake?”

He asked the little blue

Fairy who was his wife.

“Ladyfair….”

He rolled over and

Smiled a sad smile.  He could

Tell she had been up all

Night.  For His part, He was exhausted.

He was nearly seeing double, he

Was so tired.

He rose and dressed.  Ladyfair

Sat in the window and sang the

Most beautiful song about a wizard

In a forest who turned people into

Fairies.

The Blue Knight Poured Water

On the fire and gathered his

Things and paid the innkeeper

“Ah Yes,” He thought to himself,

“We were going to investigate

Time Travel Today….” So HE

Got on his horse Persephone

And she led him.

The blue knight was very

Gentle, and Very Kind.  So Kind,

In fact, that he tried very hard not to

Alter fate.  For this reason he

Let his White Horse, Persephone,

Lead them wherever they went----

Horse, Boy, and fairy. Persephone

Led Them  While

 he slept on her back.

She went off the path.

She Wandered into a Wood.

There Was a Dim Path in The

Forest, and when she

Wanted to wake Theedore up

She snorted loudly and he woke

Up.

“Ah, Persephone, You’ve led us

To the middle of nowhere,”

He Pointed out.  Persephone had,

In fact, led them to a Fairy

Vale and they were at

This point hopelessly

lost in the forest.

But the Blue Knight, being

A Gentle Friend of the Fairies,

Was not afraid.

Dim  Streaks of sunlight fell

Upon them there in that

Enchanted forest, full of

Ancient trees Whose Leafy Foliage

Made a Canopy above them

That blocked out the light,

The Forest was deep and dark and

Dim.

In the Very Distance seemed

The Trickling of a Spring,

There were mushrooms in the

Undergrowth, of every color, shape

And size.  There were cool blue

Ferns and forest herbs, medicines

And unknown roots and

Growing things like lichens

All around. 

The Forest was rich and abundant

In composted fallen leaves,

Which over thousands of years

Had nourished and enriched

The trees and undergrowth

Underneath these decaying

Leaves, was fungi, mushrooms,

And lichens.  The Primary Population

Of the forest were bugs,

Spiders of all sorts,

Great and Small.

Millipedes as large as your hand

The creeper-spiders who

Had tiny bodies but horrifyingly

Long, needle-thin black legs

Which Rather  resembled

Twigs.  The forest was writhing

And crawling, creeping and pulsing

And throbbing with insect Life.

---But, you may wonder, is there

Not more to a forest than

Leaves and insects?

Fairies are There.

They are theForest-Dwellers

That dance in their fairy-glades

And fairy rings

And in the morning after

Rise designs of mushrooms.

Most middle-ages peasants

Feared to go into the woods,

For fear of Witches or Black

Fairy Magic.  But our Blue

Knight was no ordinary Knight

And the Blue Fairy could

Call the fairies, and they would

Come out of hiding.

Part II  “To Start a fire in a Wood”

To Start A Fire In A Wood is a

Dangerous thing to do. It alarms

The trees, the entire forest

Wakes up.  Yet nonetheless, The

Blue Knight searched for

dead, dry twigs and dry, dead

wood for his fire.  To Start

his fire, he built a tiny teepee

of little sticks around some

dry pine needles.  Then

he used a match

to light the fire, blowing ever

so slightly on the little flame,

for Oxygen makes Fire Grow.

Then he added small, dry sticks

And slowly larger and larger

Sticks.  When The Fire was a

Healthy size, he gently placed

A log of dry Pine Knot on the

Fire, and Settled down.

It was growing dark.

He took Out a tin

And a pot and

Made some coffee

Sir William had sent him off

With, strong

Black Coffee.  Then he ate some of

His rations.  The blue Fairy

Sang to him the entire time.

That night she crawled

Up into the nape of his neck

And made a nest in his hair

 and she sang  fairy songs until

They Were Both Asleep.

When The Blue Knight Awoke

The Next Knight, He Was Turned

Into a Blue Fairy!  He was Three inches

Tall and had blue wings!  He Joined the

Other fairy folk of that Fairy Vale

And of course he married his wife

LadyFair the blue fairy.  The Wedding

Was Beautiful.

And they lived Happily Ever After.

THE END.