You duck into the woods as fast as you can. You don’t stop until you’re completely out of breath. By now, the roadway is out of sight. You achingly stumble to a tree and lay up against its trunk sitting on an exposed root.
As you’re catching your breath, you think you hear whispering voices. Dismissing it as the wind you concentrate more on figuring out your situation. Suddenly, you hear a sound like a cross between a bee and ringing bells. You look up and let out a shriek. Landing gently in front of you is a young woman with two large pairs of pink, crystalline wings matching her hair. She also has a dress made of light blue silk that brought out the blue of her eyes.
“Hello.” She says. “You’re human, right?”
“Y-yes.” You nervously respond.
“See, I told you!” The fairy calls out to another fairy poking her head out from atop a high branch.
“Well excuse me if I never heard of a human the size of a fairy before!” the other fairy said while fluttering down to the tree root. She had green hair and wings with a magenta colored silk dress. “How did you get that way anyway?” She asks you.
“Don’t be so rude, Rhoda.” The first fairy scolded the other. “My name’s Tulip; and this is Rhododendron, Rhoda for short. What’s your name?”
“Amy.” You respond. “I’m not usually this small. Some guy hooked me up to a machine and did this to me. Wait, you fairies can do magic, right? Can you change me back to normal?”
Tulip and Rhoda exchanged sad glances. Finally, Rhoda spoke up. “Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of power.”
“We CAN, however, make it easier for you to deal with your current size.” Tulip added.
Tulip and Rhoda pick you up and carry you deep into the forest. Finally you set down in front of a strange capsule made of flower petals and vines.
“This is the Flower Cocoon.” Tulip said. “If you enter it, you’ll sprout wings and become a fairy, too.”
You think about it before asking; “Can it be reversed?”
“We’re not sure.” Rhoda said. “It’s used to give fairies their wings when they’re old enough. It’s permanent for us, but, you being a human, it might be reversible.”