Iyuth

"Momma, tell me about your home."

"My home?" In the dark, most people probably wouldn't notice the woman's pink colored hair and eyes, but Julian can tell. His mother pretends to think as she tucks him in. "Well... I live in a lovely house with my husband and my son..."

"No!" Julian giggles. "Tell me about where you were born!"

"Oh, where I was born!" Pretending this is not a nightly routine is, of course, part of the routine. "Well, I was born on a planet far beyond the Tristan system, a place where people like your dad--"

"humans," Julian fills in.

His mother laughs like chimes in an ocean breeze. "Humans are nary to be found. Because my world was entirely inhabited by fairies...."