October Prompted Fiction: Fae School Collection: Tamara - Samhain Dance: 519 words

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Written for forgottenspirits' prompt on the fae school's Samhain celebrations.

Tamara looked at Autumn. “I don't know about this.”

“If you get it wrong then I'm sure someone will be able to fix it, but I don't think you will. River didn't offer you extra lessons because you're bad at glamours.”

Breathing deeply, Tamara nodded. “Autumn, I know why River offered me extra lessons. That doesn't stop me from worrying that I might be destroying my favourite dress if I get this wrong.”

“You won't destroy it. It's just a tiny little glamour.” Autumn smiled. “Some of the glamours you've done are much more complicated than this one.”

“They weren't done on anything that I owned.”

“Stop being such a worrier and do it.”

Autumn was already dressed, ready for the party, while Tamara wore a towel because she'd been trying to convince herself that she could glamour her prom dress. River had told her over and over again that she was good at glamours, but that didn't mean she believed him. Part of her was still having trouble believing that she could do fae magic, so everything she learnt to do didn't seem quite real, and that was the part she couldn't push past. Her prom dress held memories of her old friends, the life she'd had before entering the fae school, and, even though she knew logically that anything happening to the dress wouldn't damage her memories, she found herself unable to glamour it.

“I can't.”

“Yes, you can. I've seen you glamour a pair of natural looking wings.”

Tamara raised an eyebrow. “That no one could touch because they weren't tangible.”

“That will come with practice.”

“What if I make my dress intangible?”

Autumn was silent for a moment. “I don't see that being a problem unless you were planning on someone being able to touch your dress.”

“It had crossed my mind.” Tamara bit her lip. “I could just wear the dress as it is. It's not like anyone here has seen it before.”

“You spent six weeks learning how to glamour a dress because you wanted to wear something special for Samhain. All that time will be wasted if you decided to wear the dress without glamouring it.” Autumn touched Tamara's shoulder. “I believe in you, even if you don't believe in yourself. Glamour the dress.”

Doing her best to ignore the voice that said she wouldn't be able to glamour the dress, she focused on the dress she had spent months designing. River had told her that she should be in advanced classes for glamour, which was why he'd given her the time she needed in his class to learn how to glamour a whole dress, and Autumn believed that she could do it. If anyone else was in the room Tamara knew that they would say the same thing as Autumn. The only real problem was herself, so if she could just get past her worry that she was dreaming everything that had happened she'd have a beautiful dress. In the end Tamara had to close her eyes. That way she wouldn't be able to see if she did it all wrong.

© K A Jones 2011


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I'd like to see how she did.

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