A faerie story for adults: a lesbian encounter at the bottom of the garden, and a hidden portal to A World Beyond. A mysterious experience for a young girl which eventually leads to her personal fulfillment in her own world.
I forced my way through the hole in the crumbling brickwork that separated the two gardens. Xanthia was waiting for me, leaning on the mossy boulder as usual, as calm and serene as always. I had asked her once whether she sat there all day waiting for me to arrive. She had looked at me most strangely.
"Oh no! I always know when you're coming to find me," she replied, frowning prettily at my confusion, "Of course I make sure I am here to meet you."
But she would never tell me how she knew when I would arrive, even when I did not know myself when my chores would be done and I could escape for an hour or two.
Today, Xanthia was already naked - gloriously, wonderfully naked and basking in the warm sunshine - with just a single flower in her hair to counterpoint her elfin beauty. Her summer dress - made of a diaphanous material I have encountered neither before or since - lay discarded on the lawn at her feet.
I rushed to her, kissed her boldly, then held her body close for the longest time, the delightful scent of her hair filling my nostrils. Xanthia eventually pulled back, then reached for my face and drew me close. She kissed me, and again, and thrice again. Then I too pulled back to look upon the face of my love.
I studied her face, drinking in her distinctive features: the wide mouth, the high cheekbones and slightly pointed ears, the fair skin and the translucently blonde hair. It was not that she would look out of place on the average high street, not really, but when you knew the truth, it was evident to me that she was somehow not quite human.
The third book of the trilogy, The Chronicles of Henry Roach-Dairier, this volume, as with the others, will appeal to both adults and young adults. Readers will experience several levels of meaning from literal to social satire.
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