Drabble: Mara
Title: Mara
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: None really
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 281 – Lepidoptera at 
tw100
Spoilers: Small Worlds.
Summary: Looks can be deceiving.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
They look so charming, delicate and innocent; pretty little fairy folk with butterfly wings, flitting about in the moonlit woods, playful, laughter like tinkling bells.
But it’s a lie, part illusion and part deception, a disguise for something dark, ancient and primal. Not entirely evil, just other; creatures from the oldest tales and nightmares, warped and wizened, their nature and motives beyond human comprehension.
Most of all, they’re dangerous. They take what they want, they can neither be reasoned with nor appealed to, and they must never be crossed. All of time is their playground, there is nowhere to hide.
The End
The Faeries are intriguing creatures, it was interesting to try explaining them.
Great use of the prompt.
Love the descriptions, it paints a very creepy picture.
I wanted to explore the Faeries a bit. They're very sinister, but they're also a very natural and integral part of our planet - at least they are in the Torchwood universe. We fear what we don't understand, and the Faeries defy understanding anyway, they're the stuff of nightmares.
I wanted to write somrthing canon-based and this was what came to mind. I was scribbling it on a bit of paper at nearly 1am because I wanted to get it down before I forgot. Had to do a lot of editing - it was too short - but I like the result!
Got most of a sequel to Adhesive Butterfly written, not happy with the last line though, it belongs in the next one. More re-editing tomorrow to see if I can fix it, lol!
Did I mention the title "Adhesive Butterfly" cracks me up every time I see it? There's just something that tickles me about it. Probably the mental image it conjures up, as well as how well it goes with "Elusive Butterfly". :)
The faeries really are creepy, glad I captured it!