Their mother rushed towards them.
She picked
up Violet, cradled in her arms. She called, "Miss?" Looking at
Elina's chest she could Elina was still breathing, "But for how
long," she thought. Mrs. Ridley pulled out her cell phone, dialed 911,
told the operator her emergency, and then waited for the ambulance.
Mrs. Ridley
talked to a policeman while an unconscious Elina was being loaded on to a
gurney into an ambulance.
The police
officer asked her, "How did you meet this 'fairy'?"
"I do
not know her. She merely saved my baby from an evil fairy."
The officer
would have thought she was crazy but there had been many strange reports lately.
Superhero battles, fairies, mermaids, and strange substances flying through the
air on their own had become common place. "Can you describe this ‘fairy’
for me?" He dryly questioned.
"Yes,
she was blond, a little shorter than myself, so less than 5' 5". She had
black wings and was dressed in all black; I did not notice anything else. She
flew far too fast and stayed too far away."
"Why
would she kidnap your child?"
"I
would not know, I have never met her before. I would have remembered meeting a
fairy," Mrs. Ridley answered, her now disheveled brown bun bobbing as she
rocked Violet.
"And
from where was she taken, here?"
"No,
just down that street," She gestured towards the street Elina had come
from. "We were headed out to dinner."
"So
you've never met either of these ‘fairies’ before?"
She
honestly believed, "No, I've never met either of them. I am from out of
town. I came here on a book tour. Maybe you have heard of me, Crystal
Ridley."
"Ma’am,"
the paramedic hollered, "we're taking off. If the officer is done with you,
I was wondering if I could hear your take on what happened."
"Do
you need me to ride with you?" she called.
"It
would be mighty helpful," the paramedic replied. She got the officer's
permission and climbed into the back of the ambulance, Violet still in hand.
"What
did you see, Ma’am?" One paramedic asked as both worked on the fairy
checking her vitals and bracing her head and limbs. Her left arm was clearly
broken, but the paramedics couldn't tell how bad, or if anything else had been
seriously injured.
"She flew
after a fairy in dark clothing, grabbed my baby from her and was flying back to
the ground, when, I think, the other fairy did something to knock her off
balance make her hit the ground hard.” Mrs. Ridley paused as the paramedics
removed Elina's bracelet which transformed her in to the fairy costume. Mrs.
Ridley gasped at the sight of Elina's unconscious body. "She's just a
girl," she quickly covered her tracks, realizing blowing Elina's secret
might not be the best thing to do.
"Was
that all, Ma'am?" asked the same paramedic.
"Um…Should
you put that bracelet on her other arm? So she is still a fairy when she wakes
up," She suggested.
"Yeah,
probably," one answered then, carefully replaced the bracelet on Elina's
other arm, and Mrs. Ridley gently touched the bracelet. She discovered that
Elina looks unfamiliar as the fairy.
"Trying
to protect my baby she fell, hitting the wall. I think she must have hit her
head," Mrs. Ridley said.
"Checking
for a concussion is standard procedure for all accidents like this."
When they
arrived at the hospital Mrs. Ridley followed the paramedics in to the hospital.
But she stopped in the waiting area as Elina was taken to be examined. It
pained her to leave either of her babies; but Violet looked hungry and she herself
hadn't eaten. Plus if she was to keep Elina's secret, she couldn't come forward
as the girl's mother. She took a cab back to her hotel, determined to go see
Rayna at her house the following day.
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