Faeries

[Timothy Toner]

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Paul Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu <UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu>
Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Faeries


>Now here's the question: can we find a bizarre but natural explanation for
>Faeries, a la vampires?

Sure.  The problem is that Faeries are known for their childlike nature,
and, I'd suspect, the younger they "turn" into faeries, the better, right?
While cases of feral children have been known (lending creedence to the
possibility that a young child, having acquired the disease / manifested the
genetic disorder, could survive in the wild indefinitely), they're pretty
damn rare.  So.  Either there's not a whole lot of them out there, OR (and
this is interesting), they hit a point, and begin to grow younger,
naturally. Now these are hardy little urchins, with a lifespan triple that
of the age they were when they went fae.  They've already gone through the
awkwardness of youth, and are quite capable of amazing feats of acrobatics
and accuracy.  Eventually, however, the body reaches cherub stage, and, if
the extremely intelligent infant isn't cared for, it will soon die.  If it
IS cared for, then it is a font of wisdom and arcane knowledge, possessing a
vocabulary at last to describe all those things that are indescribable and
yet so essential to nascent life, which the real world crushes out of a
child.