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Prologue
It started with individual races. Separate cities, separate people, separate lives.
The fairies; majestic, peaceful, introverted beings. The unknown species, the unfamiliar. Then there was the humans. Sometimes cruel, clever, and known and familiar.
But, history had intended for these races and separate things to run together. Of course they clashed - suddenly humans weren’t the only beings, and they certainly weren’t the most advanced. The humans were far from okay with the upset of balance.
It was unfriendly at first, and strange. You had to get used to the mystically beautiful people who sometimes spread their wings and flew above your head.
Then came the expected: the discrimination and the prejudice. Parents didn’t want their kids near the unfamiliar species, so laws were enforced. Different schools, work buildings, eateries, and sections of towns for the two species. With time, the laws were abolished, but the prejudice and discrimination lingered.
Changes had to be made, as well. The previous separations made it harder to make the changes, but eventually they came about. They weren’t even exactly changes, more like accommodations - higher ceilings for the fairies, new medicines for the humans, and schools and buildings made for both species.
Not everyone was so keen on these changes, though. There were many riots, over things so simple, like schools. The animosity between the anti-human and anti-fairy groups grew until the Great Execution took place. It stayed true to it’s name, being the execution of 234 humans and 135 fairies in total. The death difference, today, is more fodder for the current anti-fairy groups.
The scientific angle was one the humans frequently tried to push aside. When fairies had first revealed themselves to humans, the scientists captured, and tortured as many as they could find. The testing resulted in death. It was terrifying to the fairies, especially since the only fairies meant to die were the ones who choose to age. However, the fairies granted the use of tests of their magic in exchange for freedom from the labs.
The fairies also requested that fairy-rights be written into the Constitution, as they had already written human-rights into theirs. But the humans refused, and to this day the fairies have removed the human-rights, and the humans ignore the request for the fairy-rights.
The humans and fairies had reached a somewhat peaceful state, even after the most recent riot. (Human teenagers were outraged that fairies had less school years. In the end, fairies were forced to go to human schools, even though any learning they did there was useless and not needed.)
Which brings us to the present: mostly peaceful. Mostly, because, there was something brewing. It was the calm before the storm; a dangerous place for both species to be. The Anti groups (both anti-human and anti-fairy) were on their toes, and somewhere, a woman named Messina was preparing for her tour…
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-Mari.
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