Actions

Work Header

Rating:
Archive Warning:
Fandom:
Characters:
Additional Tags:
Language:
English
Stats:
Published:
2022-12-12
Words:
117
Chapters:
1/1
Kudos:
1
Hits:
14

The Seemly Thing

Summary:

A poem mythicizing the first meeting of Man and the Seemly, one of the oldest and grandest peoples of our fine realm. Author lost to time.

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

The Seemly stepped between the grass,
The footfalls soft as night.
The Seemly stood before the men,
The men forgot to fight.
The Seemly was a handsome thing,
The mind and body tall.
The Seemly swept aside their locks,
The wind was felt by all.
The Seemly gave them mud and mirth,
The least of what they had.
The Seemly bowed and bade them dance,
The slowest made them mad.
The Seemly swore then, up and down,
The air thrummed like a heart.
The Seemly said if they were dead,
The world would come apart.
The Seemly calmed and went away,
The woods their welcome den.
The Seemly stay there even now,
But soon shall come again.

Notes:

The Seelie of the Weary Wood are fickle, vicious things. Their comely and bewitching looks have enabled them to become entirely consumed by vanity, wholly believing and embodying every flowery song and sonnet written to blow perfumed smoke up their bottoms. Still, a flattered Seelie is a calm Seelie, and a calm Seelie minds its manners. Not many people are cognizant of the true danger these creatures pose to us, especially in comparison to their maligned cousins, the Unseelie. For every tale and scar attributed to close calls with Unseelie persons, there are countless poor souls felled by Seelie hands. Therein lies the difference - the Unseelie have plenty of victims to despise them, but the Seelie never leave their victims alive.

- Truly Haggard, tiefling cultural anthropologist and folklorist