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The Fall Of Avalon

from Fairy Tales for Homeless Faeries by Paul Shapera

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The fall of the great fairy kingdom of Avalon was the saddest day in all of Fae history.

Though Celia had seen Men once or twice
her two Fae younglings had never laid eyes
on such creatures, until the night of which i tell
when they stormed the city and Avalon fell.

Fae mother Celia with 3 children ran
to escape the city, when she met the 1st man.
His name Daughlin Craig, and his sword was drawn
but when he saw the young mother, he lowered it down

He let them pass, and a tear on the face
of one of the children Daughlin Craig wiped away.
The tear left a mark on his hand, a sign
his family would carry the rest of their line

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Fae mother Celia with 3 children ran
to escape the city, when she met the 2 man.
His name, Tobias Miller and his sword was unsheathed
he would not let her pass unless she paid him a fee

A glowing moonstone from around her neck
she gave the man before she took her children and fled
but when Tobias Miller got home after siege had stopped
the moonstone was now naught but a small black rock

Though he threw it away in mad disgust
his very young son eyed it and picked it back up
enchanted by its glow until he too grew up
and reached the age where he too saw only black rock

however no matter any attempt
to get rid of the rock, it never left
Bury it, throw it, whatever was tried
it remained in their family the rest of their line

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Fae mother Celia had reached the gates
of the fallen city and was almost safe
in the forest beyond whatever kin she had left
who hadn't already died in the defense had fled

She met the 3rd man then, Malachi Smith
and sword drawn he ordered that payment be met
but jewelry and baubles were not what he like
he wanted pay of a more... intimate kind

Fae mother Celia did what she must
the man grunted and smirked and let them go past
she and her children fled into the night
carrying what would become of the man's baby inside

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from Fairy Tales for Homeless Faeries, released October 15, 2013
Matthew Broyles: guitar

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Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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