Earth Fire Water and Wind by Kaitlin Chenoa Humphries (reading like a writer .TXT) 📕

Water Lily, Earth Wolf, Fire Fox, and Water Lynx came back. They took her out of the tree only to find that she had cocooned herself in vines, leaves, and flowers. As gently as possible they placed the cocooned Wood Earth into the water. The cocoon disappeared and Wood Earth came into to view. The tree obviously decided she becomes dressed. Wood Earth was wearing a dress made of rose petals. Water Lily explained that the tree would make clothes for Wood Earth. Most of the time, it would take petals from flowers and enlarge them to fit into a dress.

The five people left Wood Earth. They would come back in four and a half days to see how she is doing.

Three days went by and Wood Earth had recovered somewhat; though she still did not awaken, she had lived so far. On the third day, a man who was in his fifties came by. He had black eyes and light brown skin. He went over to the pond and drank from it. That is when he noticed a figure in the middle of the pond. It was below surface but ripples were produced showing that the thing was breathing. At first, the man turned to run but thought otherwise. ‘What if it was a person?’ he wondered ‘what if someone had banished a beautiful maiden into the pond? In addition, if I saved her would she be forever in debt to me?’ he undid his boots, took off his shirt sword and belt. The man dove into the water careful not to bring any thing that could contaminate it. When he reached the middle of the pond he hesitated. ‘What if it is a beast?’ he asked himself. He shook the thought out of his head. The man dove under the water. The pond was deeper than he expected. In addition, the water near the body was warmer than the rest. He risked opening his eyes and was surprised that it felt as though no water were coming into his eyes. He looked at the person and marveled at the site of a beautiful woman either sixteen or seventeen. He reached out and took her into his arms her skin was as soft as petals. Around her neck was a collar. When he swam back to the land and placed her on the ground the collar burst into flames. At first, he was afraid she might burn but when he noticed the flames stayed round, her neck he figured that whoever put her in the water must have been a sorcerer. He laid her on her back then when she was perfectly straight, he took his hands and pushed against her chest until she coughed. Surprisingly she had swallowed no water. When she moaned and shifted to her side the man noticed a mark on her neck. It was he shape of a rose. The girls’ eyes’ fluttered open and before he could take a closer look at the mark on her throat the girl backed away at a swift speed.

“Wait!” cried the man. The girl stopped and looked at him. “I didn’t mean to scare you.” He told her, “my names Fredrick. I saw you in the water so took you out of it afraid that you might be hurt or something.”

The girl nodded her head. She pointed at her throat and shook her head. At first, Fredrick was confused but then he noticed that she had not spoken a word. “You can’t speak can you?” he asked. The girl shook her head. She looked around and took a stick that had fallen from a tree into her hands. She knelt on the ground and began to write with it in the dirt. Her dress had begun to welt, which he thought was odd until he remembered the smell of flowers that came from the dress. That is when he knew it was made of flower petals. He went over to where the girl was writing in the dirt. He waited patiently until she was done. She got to her feet only to wobble and have her knees buckle under her. Fredrick caught her and sat her gently on the ground. The girl pointed at what she had written and made a gesture as if she were reading. Fredrick went over to the writing in the dirt and began to read. It was written in beautiful cursive handwriting.

My name is Wood Earth. I am 17 years old. Where are my sisters Fire Lily and Water Lily?

Fredrick shook his head sadly. He turned to her.

“I have not seen any other people nearby or any maidens such as yourself.” He told her. Wood Earth pointed at the sky and then her wrist “the day?” he asked. She nodded her head. ‘Damn! I am getting very good at this.’ He thought. He turned to her. “What day and month do you last remember and year.”

Wood Earth once again bent down on the ground and wrote:

Fredrick; the year was 1772 and it was June 3 that I remember last.

Fredrick read what she wrote. He turned to her smiling.

"That was only five and a half days ago.” He told her. Wood Earth smiled. Fredrick helped her to her feet. “ Come with me. You can live with my wife and kids. I have three little girls and two boys. My two oldest are about your age one is sixteen the other is seventeen.”

Wood Earth nodded her head. What other choice did she have? Her sisters were not here and she definitely did not want to go back to the king. She allowed Fredrick to pick her up for she could barely walk. Fredrick carried her to his house, which took until nightfall to get to. Wood Earth still had plenty of bruises on her arms and legs from when the fire from the collar had entered her mouth. Her eye was still black from when the king had hit her the day she escaped from the castle. Wood Earth was fast asleep in Fredrick’s arms when he reached his house. His wife was standing at the doorway when he came into the light of her lamp.

“What have you done this time?” she asked him. Fredrick shook his head.

“I found her in that pond we get our water from and stuff. Someone must have stuck her there.” He told her “ and Julian look at this!” he pushed Wood Earth’s hair out of the way and showed his wife the collar of fire “ someone placed that on her neck. The poor girl can’t take it off.”

His wife, Julian, looked at Wood Earth. “What is her name?” she asked Fredrick as she let him into the house with Wood Earth.

“Her name is Wood Earth. She is seventeen just like our oldest daughter Faith is.” He laid Wood Earth on the bed in the guest room of their house. Julian lighted a lamp on the desk next to the bed. That is when she noticed the bruises on Wood Earth’s body.

“What happened to give her these bruises?” Julian asked her husband as she examined the one that had once again begun to bleed.

“ She wouldn’t say. She cannot speak, has no voice the poor girl. The only thing she did was point at her bruises then at the collar. I couldn’t understand what she was trying to say.” Fredrick explained to his wife. Julian nodded her head and hurried out of the room. In a few minutes, she came back. She had bandages in her arms and a bottle of something along with it. She took the bottle and poured some onto a cloth she took out of a pouch she was carrying. Julian dabbed the stuff on the bleeding wounds. Then she took the bandages and wrapped the wounds she just dabbed the medicine upon. The next day Julian came into the room to check on Wood Earth. She was surprised to find Wood Earth awake and the bruises that had not bled gone even the one around Wood Earths’ eye was gone. When Wood Earth saw the woman, she moved to the other part of the room farthest away from her. Wood Earth still had a hard time trusting people. Julian shook her head.

“It’s okay sweetie. I will not harm you just come here so I can check those bandages.” Julian told her. Wood Earth looked at the bloody bandages on her arms and legs. She smiled, if this person were here to harm her than they would not of put bandages over her wounds. Wood Earth sat on the bed and allowed the woman to undo the bandages. Julian was surprised to find the bruises all gone no sign of there ever even being a bloody wound except for the bloody bandages. Wood Earth smiled at Julian, she took Julian's hand into her own and moved the other over Julian's hand as if writing something. Julian caught on and left the room. She came back with some scrolls, an ink pen, and some ink. Wood Earth took the scrolls and began to write. She handed Julian the first scroll with her perfect cursive writing.

When Julian finished reading what Wood Earth had written.she looked at Wood Earth sadly, “I had heard that the king had taken three maidens into his castle and locked them up against their will. If I had known the girls were as young as you, I would have tried to help. As far as you staying here, I would not care less what the king will do if he finds out. You have no way of surviving if you cannot speak.” Julian told Wood Earth. Wood Earth smiled. She nodded to indicate that she would stay.

Four and a half days went by and Fire Lily, Water Lily, Earth Wolf, Fire Fox, and Water Lynx came back. Water Lily dove into the pond with Water Lynx. When they resurfaced, Water Lily was worried.

“She’s gone!” Water Lily cried. Fire Lily had begun circling the pond. She stopped on the opposite side of where they came.

“There has been writing in the sand.” Fire Lily informed them. She closed her eyes and laid her hands on the two sets of writing. The sand with the writing hardened Water Lily made water spred over the writig so Fire Lily began to read, “My name is Wood Earth. I am 16 years old. Where are my sisters Fire Lily and Water Lily? Wood Earth must have been talking to someone. 'Fredrick; the year was 1772 and it was June 3 that I remember last.' I‘m guessing this Fredrick has taken her.” Fire Lily looked at her sister with worry.

“I know a man named Fredrick.” Wolf Earth informed them. They all looked at him in surprise. “This man is a friend, he lives in a farm house about half a days walk from here. However, we cannot go now. The Kings soldiers are nearby. They usually stop by his house to get provisions but that is during winter. I have no idea why they would be heading that way now.” Fire Lily and Water Lily began to protest but they have learned that whatever the boys say is always for the best well at least sometimes.


<<font;center>Chapter 6

Taken back


Wood Earth was happy for the two days she was there. The children had lots of fun playing with her and were always amazed when the wild animals allowed her to pet them. Then by pure accident she changed right in front of the children’s eyes. She changed into a brown Wolf With a green tipped tail. The children screamed in surprise. The kings’