Felicity~ A Sparrow's Tale by Loralee Evans

Author:Loralee Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, rescue, anthropomorphic, modern fantasy, faries, sparrows, middle grade fantasy, unselfishness, riddles and adventure, literate animals

Ignoring the sign’s edict, Felicity settled in a crook of one of the topmost links of the fence.

She folded her wings and looked down, inspecting the worn metal beneath her toes. She flutter hopped from one piece of twisted wire to the next, gripping it and testing it with her talons. It was a real fence, alright. Not a massive stone wall disguised as a fence. And aside from being where no featherless two-foots had been in a long time, it didn’t seem to be much different from any other chain link fence she’d ever seen.

It didn’t seem to possess any particular magical qualities. And despite the sign, it didn’t seem very able to actually keep any trespassers out.

Still, with what she had seen already, it might be a good idea to try and keep an open mind. Felicity had learned from her encounter with the moths that she could not trust anything in Grak’s domain to be what it appeared. Perhaps featherless two-foots had put this fence here long ago, but now, more than likely, Grak used it for his own devious plans.

Looking around, Felicity’s eyes trailed to two parallel tracks that ran along the north side of the fence from one end of the clearing to the other.

“Wheel tracks!” she whispered to herself. “Made by featherless two-foots’ carts!”

She fluttered her wings and fanned her tail, pleased that she recognized what they were. But the little road hadn’t been traveled in a long time. The tall grass growing beside and between the wheel ruts made them almost invisible, except from here, where she perched atop the fence.

Felicity beat her wings and looked up. The sun had passed the middle of the sky, and was slowly sliding down toward the west. She should keep moving. Especially if something wicked lived around here that she hadn’t seen yet. Best to get past it before it scared the wits out of her like the moths had. Fanning her tail, she bent her legs to launch off of the fence when something on the ground in one of the grassless wheel tracks caught her attention.

Felicity’s eyes opened wide and then a smile spread across her beak at the sight of the fat beetle trundling along over the dirt. Oh, it looked juicy!

Diving off the fence, Felicity swooped down and landed on the ground beside the beetle.

“Hello!” she chirped before snatching the beetle up in her beak. Its six legs wiggled in the air as she prepared to munch it down.

“Well, hello yourssself, sssparrow,” said a smooth voice.

Surprised, Felicity spat out the bug. She eyed it suspiciously as it rolled to its feet and continued creeping along on its way. It seemed hardly put out that it had almost been eaten.

“You didn’t say anything,” she muttered accusingly as the bug disappeared in the tall grass.

“Of courssse it didn’t sssay anything,” the same silky smooth voice replied. “Sssilly sssparrow. It’sss an insssect. Insssectsss don’t ssspeak.”

The voice had come from behind her.

Fluttering around, Felicity’s eyes went wide at the sight of the strange creature that looked at her from the tall forest of grass.

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