A Pleasant Little Lake

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A Pleasant Little Lake

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In a little place that hardly anyone ever knows about, there’s a cabin nestled between two willows by a lake. This is a rather nice lake. The weather is almost always warm, but not too much so. The sun is always shining, but not too much so. There is always something new to find and old favorite things to visit. It could have been any pleasant little lake in any pleasant little corner of the world.

Really, it could!

But then, we wouldn’t be telling a story about just any pleasant lake in just any pleasant corner of the world, would we?

Now this isn’t just any lake, or any little cabin.

“Come on guys, keep them coming!”

No, this little cabin is home to an odd little woman. What is so odd you might ask? Why, she is coordinating winged cats, ibexes, and leviathans as they pop out of the surrounding shrubbery and waterways.

And each has an egg in their mouth.

“Please be careful! We want each of these in tip, top shape when they find their magi!”

The woman bounces around outside her little cabin, legs bare from the knee down so as to not drag water everywhere, hair up in a messy knot that looks like it’s ready to fall out, a tiny little phoenix seen almost hidden under the fluff, pointing to each creature in turn, the creature then gently dropping the egg back in the water to go down stream.

“Ah ha! Got a new one!”

All the creatures watched as near the mouth of the stream a little sparkle started to show, started to shimmer like light making a rainbow from a waterfall. Less than a heartbeat later a new little Pegasus egg floated down stream. A happy cheer went up and the next egg was carefully placed in the water, the woman bouncing around more than ever as her little phoenix chirps.

It is a bit funny if you thought about it. All different kinds of creatures working together to bring eggs back up that had floated too far down to be caught. The eggs never vanished until they found their magi. Then a new one would pop up at the top of the stream and start its own journey.

Why do the creatures do this? Well, become someone did it for them. Most likely the same woman who is bouncing around her little cabin by her pleasant lake.

And who is the woman?

Well, that’s a bit harder to answer. Most just tell stories about the Mother Hen of the Hatchery, making sure that not one egg gets left behind. Rumor says her phoenix was one such egg, lost and alone and very nearly twinkled out, and she vowed to never let that happen again.

You see magic grows when shared. But if kept away and isolated, well it splutters and tries to keep itself going, much like a match flame in the wind. And eventually it can go out. But if magic is shared it can grow wild and strong like the willows around her little cabin.

So far, she hasn’t failed a one.

Now even if you find this pleasant little lake, it’s not a sure thing you’ll see her. You might not know you’re even at the right one.

But if you’re lucky you might just see her.

And if you’re very lucky, she’ll smile back and wink at you, before she disappears.
"The light at the end of the tunnel is the fire of an oncoming dragon."

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