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They were made to be warnings.

I will agree with you, but I do not yet know what Cinderella warned me against.

Be kind, lest the one you wrong becomes Queen.

I may have assumed that I was in the wrong story.

Didn't the cruelty give you any indication?

Many are treated cruel in fairy tales.

They are especially cruel. And rarely are there any fairies.

What name do you have for those tales?

The cruel ones or the ones with fairies?

The cruel ones.

History.

All I like about History is that it is in the past.

I respect the cruelty. If it's imaginative.

I suppose. If one isn't living through it.

We all live through it, in some manner.

I suppose. Yes. Apologies for my melancholy, madam.

Why would you apologize?

I was alway taught to be cheerful and polite with those I do not know. Melancholy thoughts should be be shared.

How strange. Melancholy is prized where's i'm from. My mother was well known for her tears.

Where are you from? My Mother hates tears.

My homeland is Dun Geimhreadh in the Magillycuddy reeks.

I recognize the name. I have not met anyone from there.

It is a remote area and our lands are inhospitable to most.

Fae lands? Is that the correct word?

Underhill. Faerie... there are many names for it.

I did not mean to offend you with mentions of what man calls Fairy-Tales. I cannot tell on sight what someone is.

It's a sore point for those of us on this side.

Are the depictions of fairies correct, in the stories, or is it just man and silly fantasies?

That... depends on the stories.

Some are accurate. Most are delusion and fantasy. We are not human. Very few of us wish to be.

We have stories where I am from, none of them want to be human. I think that I understand.

[She's curious now]

Tell me a story of the fae where you are from.

Ogbanje was the word for the children. They would be switched when the mother turned away. The children would grow sick and die. Some parents would send away the sick children, but they always returned. You would have to destroy the iyi-uwa to stop it.

The Aswang would leave plant children behind.

We also had many other creatures. I think we didn't have enough room for many more fairies.

It's interesting, isn't it? Taking and leaving children. It's much the same story everywhere.

Yes. That usually means that there is a grain of truth in the story.

Or humans need an excuse and scapegoat for the neglect and murder of their children when they exceed human's ability to care for them...

My mother was taken as a child, and replaced with another. She spoke of it often. I agree with you, however, in most cases.

[Now you have her interest]

What did she speak of?