Dandiflyers

Fairy collection #5

With the very first summer breeze, those spring dandelions, already fully bloomed and developed into blowballs that get blown away to the last achene sprout a Dandiflyer. These minuscule fey have both floral and insectoid characteristics. Their appearance is that of a dandelion seed with wings and appendages of floating fluff with a rather fuzzy-looking head. Floating and flying about on their soft chenille wings until the first leaves of autumn start to fall.

These tiny little wisps of fluff are agents of luck. They are born and die of it, spreading it around on their wandering life journey. If one happens to get tangled up in your hair, or you capture and release it, they bestow a bit of their drifting good luck on you. If you don’t release it or even accidentally smash it, you will be cursed with bad luck until the inception of fall.

These little harbingers of brighter days feed on accidents waiting to happen and moments of seeming impossibility. The more instants they have fed on, the bigger dose of luck they can pass on should they be discharged on a human. The inhabitants of Langrisha’a go out on the first day of spring into their farms and fields hoping to be touched by one, though they have such a small amount of luck when firstborn; a little luck is better than none. The smart folks go out the last couple of weeks, searching fields and hills to get a much more powerful boost, even if it will last a much shorter period.

K.B. Silver

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