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Travelogue of Canon Freya: An account of a child's discovery of a new portal to Earth

Sunday Prompt Gold #8: A travel log or other document associated with discovery. 20 mins   There was a dream Failis had had as a child in which she had woken up in a cave. In this dream, she had fallen through a viscous blackness, emerging from a dark tunnel into a cave area on the outskirts of a walled settlement of other children. They were alone, with no adults in sight. Three of them were standing by a wall, talking to each other. She drew closer, quiet as a mouse. She froze when she caught sight of them. Their ears were so different: rounded at the top, with curled flesh leading inwards. Their ears were so small, they did not hear her approach. She sank against the rock behind her, flattening against it like a shadow.   The dream had been so real to her, that as a girl she revisited it often in her waking hours. It became a play in her mind, something to occupy her while she trained at sitting still to listen to the air. Her father caught her distraction a few times and with a single look would clear her mind and attend to the listening lessons; the canons were none the wiser, giving her lenience because she was so young in her training.   She had never told anyone about her dream. Yet here she was holding a journal that described her every action in specific, accurate detail. It was written in the curling script of the waterfae language; its author was inlaid in hematite powder on its cover: Canon Freya. Canon Freya was a Dolmanner guardian Failis dimly remembered from running through the caves in areas off limits to children. She liked to follow her father from a distance on his diplomatic missions with the dark elves. She wasn't to blame if a canon turned his or her head away after telling her where not to go; it was all but an invitation. Canon Freya caught her more times than the others.   She read the small volume with increasing interest. The canon described it as an adventure, a fictional account of a young airfae during her transformation period, who stumbles inadvertently onto an undiscovered portal beneath a water pool.   But this was her dream! Every detail, every move she made. It described her as being chaperoned by the canon unawares, to see what she would do in her childlike wonder. But if this story was true, there was no way the girl could not know she had been accompanied by her elder; she would have had to have been standing next to her the entire time. So it had to be fictional. Right? If she had read this book, or had it read to her, then had Failis become so involved with the story that she had absorbed it as her own memory? Why would she have forgotten it was a book? (And, come to think of it, how could she have read Frish language when she was only twelve cycles old?)   More confused than she had been before reading the handwritten volume to its end, she resolved to find Canon Freya and ask her about it.

Purpose

It is a travelogue, a reporting document typically required of all diplomat fae and canons traveling through dolmens to other worlds. Canon Freya would have written this if she had traveled through a dolmen and visited another world for any length of time.   The narrative describes two transgressions of her professional duties: she did not prevent a child's passage to another world, and when she did follow that child to the other side, she did not immediately send them back. The narrative does not explicitly provide reasoning for her derelictions; however, the fact that the volume is found among the personal belongings of the girl's father (and not in the library of the canonry) indicates that the report was never officially filed, and the contents thereof known only to the author and the girl's father.

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Publication Status

The document would have been written as a formal artifact, typically restricted to the priesthood and specific requesting officials of high rank within the governing body of a fae family. However, its location indicates that the contents themselves are probably clandestine, known to only two parties, and that discovery of the described activities would require formal response from the Circle of Oracles.
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