tagSci-Fi & FantasyComing of Age Ch. 01

Coming of Age Ch. 01


Renna wasn't sure exactly when the changes started taking place. She had first noticed the changes in her self one morning as she sat gazing at the reflection of the blue Az'Reylin sky in the still, undisturbed surface of the pond close to her home. The transparent paper thin wings she had on her back since birth looked....well, bigger somehow. She knew from having seen others of her race during occasional trips to market that full grown, functional wings was a sign of maturity for her race, but had never really given it much thought. All through her childhood, the wings hadn't really done much, except flutter ineffectually against her shoulder blades whenever she got excited or angry. At the time she had stood looking at her reflection in the clear pool for several minutes before writing it off as a figment of her imagination, or a ripple in the water she had not noticed making them appear to have grown.

Renna had been orphaned at a young age during an Ashtarian attack on the small village where her parents had been living. The attack had claimed the lives of both her parent and all three of her brothers and sisters when their house had caught fire during the raid, and collapsed in on the sleeping family. By some miracle her life had been spared when one of their neighbors, a gentle Sadidan woman named Myrma, had seen the blaze and followed the sound of Renna's cries of distress to her cradle on the bottom floor and pulled her from the blistering inferno just as the structure collapsed. Renna had been too young to remember any of it, but Myrma would often smile as she talked about the angry little toddler she had pulled from the fire, that had fit perfectly into the palm of her hand.

Under the tender guidance of the sadi woman, Renna had grown quickly, from a curious toddler, to a rambunctious child, to an adolescent with lots of questions about what it was that made her so different from Myrma herself. The woman who had raised her as her own had finally told her the story one morning when Renna had asked why she was so much smaller than all the other Sadidans in the secluded forest village. It had been then that Myrma had pulled down an old leather bound book and dusted it off, opening it to reveal vividly drawn pictures of the different races that inhabited their lands. She had pointed to a picture of a tall muscular man and woman in forest garb with long hair that looked a lot like the people in their village and explained that they were Sadidans, and then flipping a few pages had shown her another picture, of small people with slender frames and sharp features, and wings coming off their shoulders. Renna remembered how her eyes had gone to the sharply pointed ears in the picture as her fingers had traced their way up to the sharp points of her own ears.

"The reason dear child you do not look like a Sadida, is because you are not supposed to."

That morning had been the first morning she had ever heard the word 'Eniripsa' and the degree of separation she had felt from her home and all she had know for the last two decades had been staggering. She had millions of questions about eniripsas, or 'Eenees' as Myrma had called them, but her guardian, having lived in the sheltering seclusion of the village most of her life, had been unable to tell her anything other than when she had finally grown up to be a mature eni, she would get her wings in.






No...that was impossible, she had travelled the areas around the village for a long way in every direction all throughout her youth and childhood, and the only place she had ever seen any others of her kind was on the two occasions when Myrma had taken her to Zalkania to shop in the multitude of stores there. Deciding it was probably a bird, she exhaled with a shaky laugh at how silly she was being, and rubbed her wings together a few more times for good measure, enjoying the full sweep of the feeling as her nerves tingled all the way to her toes.

Deciding she'd had enough and trying to clear her fogged mind, she stood up and was about to fly away when a rush of wind and much lower but still distinctive chirp sounded from just behind her and she felt a gentle hand stroke the top of her wing from its attached point at her shoulder blade all the way to the fragile tip before withdrawing. The gentle touch was enough to freeze her dead in her tracks wings outstretched and draw in a sharp breath as a fire exploded through her already heated body. Any and all thoughts of fleeing banished from her mind, she turned curiously to see who was chirping back at her.





"Don't be shy," he murmured, "you are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen....don't hide..."


"And don't be scared," he whispered, "a more gentle lover you will never know." He ran the tip of his tongue up the ridge of her ear, his hot breath and the feel of his tongue causing goose bumps to jump up on her arms. Then he surprised her by putting slight pressure on the back of her shoulder to show her he wanted her to turn around and moving to stand behind her. She did as he wanted, his words calming her skittish mind, missing his warmth as her over stimulated body was exposed to the air.




The pace was slow at first gradually picking up speed as the tension in her built in her to a fever pitch, and she felt like she was on the edge of something wonderful but unknown.

"Please..." Renna whimpered, "please don't stop."

"I can't," he said, his voice strained and shaky, "not until you let me..."


"I wish you had told me it was your first time," he said, looking a bit embarrassed, "that was a bit clumsily done. I'm sorry if I hurt you...Are you okay?"

She wasn't really sure what he would have done differently, but nodded, her face flushing hotly at the memory of what had just happened. He then stood, the color of his skin looking more normal and started collecting his garments and handing her's to her as he dressed. She noticed a black Dreg claw around his neck on a skinny strip of leather than had been fashioned into a necklace of sorts. He pulled it off over his head, and then walked over to where she was just finishing fastening her top and placed it over her head and around her neck.

"My name is Raife by the way," he said," I have a hunting group waiting on me, or i would stay here with you. All you have to do to contact me is hold that claw and think of me, I'll hear you no matter where you are." With that he leaned in and brushed his lip against hers again, then flew off with a buzz of wings, yelling back to here before disappearing from sight,

"I'll see you tonight," Renna watched his retreating form with a wide range of mixed emotions. Wondering just what she had gotten herself into and what exactly had just happened. Taking a look at the position of the sun in the sky and knowing Myrma would worry if she wasn't back for lunch, she gave a buzz of her own and flew in the direction of home knowing somehow that this morning had changed everything, and nothing would ever be the same again...

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