Touch the Sky
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 108562
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Her skin was turning brown and hard, and leaves were sprouting every which way. She realized that the sweat she had been producing in the hot sun was now much stickier and brown. "Gloriana!" she screamed, though she knew her healer was far out of earshot. She swiped violently at the fairies swarming around her, but the movement was awkward; her arms were growing to unnatural lengths. Everything about her was. Her brain felt like it was being squashed into jelly as she was stretched so much that her neck, head, and shoulders were the same width. Extra limbs protruded from her midsection. Her hair turned to twigs. She just about tripped in the total lack of balance, but her feet were literally rooted to the ground, and she was too stiff even to fall to her knees, if she even still had any. Her belly button stretched until it became what might one day house a small forest creature. Her eyes, nose, and mouth began to flatten and disappear. She didn't even get to experience the exhilaration of being so high up. She lost all coherent thought. And she was a tree. It was a highly unpleasant process, but no doubt very fun for the fairies, who immediately began to nest in what had been Hannah's belly button mere minutes before, using pieces of what had been her hair, and the ripped remains of her dress. Gloriana arrived on the scene after just a few hours. The fairies had been all over the Hannah-tree, and moss was already accumulating all over her. The remnants of her clothes had been scattered to the four winds. The fairies had confiscated her basket. There was no trace of her. Gloriana looked at the tree in which the fairies hid unseen by her, wrinkled her nose, and said to herself
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