Tooth Fairy

Rainy nights were the worst part of this gig. Silk tights didn’t protect legs from the scratches of crinoline when you were soaked to the bone and the weight of your skirts makes it stick to your legs and scratch.

It doesn’t help that you need to wait until all the house lights are out making sure that everyone has gone to bed. The magic didn’t work well enough to make your footfall silent or hide the sound of the crinoline.

When she chose this from the jobs she was offered after her transcendence she has expect magic to make her small, able to fly through windows and easily extract the tooth from under the pillow. Just like the stories that she had heard as a child before she even knew about transcendence.

That is not the case. Now that the lights are out she can tiptoe to the door with an arcane utterance that took her days to learn to pronounce the door opened quietly.  Once through the door it shut behind her. Another utterance and she would be dry she needed to concentrate as it was a more difficult word and she often said it too loudly to compensate for her unease with it. It came out as “grumph” and nothing happened. She shivered with the damp and hoped that the puddle that was forming beneath her would clear up with the last bit of magic she would do to erase all traces of her in the house other than the kids room. She took out a small glowing orb from her glittery satchel. It was dry. She had worried as the last time it got wet it lead her to every tooth in the house weather it was still in a mouth or a pair of grandma’s dentures soaking in a cup on the back of the toilet.

She unlaced her glittery high tops so that she could walk quietly through the house without the squish squish coming from of the wet shoes to wake the family. Once she stood up the stone glowed blue and felt icy to her touch. At first this silent game of hot or cold with a rock was fun. Now it was trying, arrows would be so much better.  She began to slowly walk toward the stairs hearing the rhythmic breathing of people upstairs asleep. It was nice to walk bare foot on carpet. In the trancendants village there was no carpet in any of the houses. She had been told that it was “an unnecessary luxury for people who would be staying for a short term”.  She had been there for 5 years and many others had been there much longer.

As she wandered toward the back of the house the stone in her hand began to slowly warm in her hands begining to change from blue to purple.

Note: I wrote this more than a year ago and I just came across it and I still like it it seems though I did not post it. Since the little boy just lost his second tooth it seemed like a good time. -V