[ WP ] A fairy tells it 's children a human tale before bed

`` Alright, but only if you keep silent.'' 
 
 The fairy lowered her child on to the bed and brushed back his wispy hair as she tucked in him. Sitting on the pillow, she cleared her throat with a quick cough and began speaking. 
 
 *'' Once upon a time in a world far far away from here, where folks walked on their feet and kept their magic locked away in their hearts, there lived a man by the name of Renard Andersen Fisher. * 
 
 *He was a funny looking man with limbs as lanky as that of a cavern spider and black hair as slick and oily as a serpent's back. Each each he would dress himself like he was heading to a funeral. His house was no different than that of anyone else, his entire village looked like rows of stale cream colored boxes. His car was red and clung to the asphalt like a metallic beetle. * 
 
 *In his house, Renard had a family. He had a wife named Vernice and a daughter named Katerina. None of them liked each other very much. Even though the husband hated his wife, he would still sleep with her and buy her sparkling jewels. The wife who hated her daughter would still drive her to school and clean up her messes. The daughter who hated them both would keep quiet while they argue and never allow a naughty word ever escape her lips. Despite their feelings, Renard, Vernice, and Katerina lived in contentment with each other. * 
 
 *So days passed like autumn leaves and years crept along like snails, Katerina grew to be a beautifully ordinary woman of no particular talent. By her eightieth year, she left her parents and sprinted into the wild yonder that is the human world. Quickly she learned the valuable lessons of giving up, settling down, and hardening one's heart. She later married a remarkably ordinary man and had two children, one would soon die in a car crash, the other will descend into alcoholism. * 
 
 *The end. `` * 
 
 `` How droll mother, will I really grow up like that?'' ask the child. 
 
 The fairy wiped away a few tears as she comforted her son, `` No my darling, even though you are a changeling in the human world, you still have a fairy heart. Do n't forget that.'' 
 
 The son closed his eyes and fell into a slumber. The fairy slowly backed away and flew out the window back to where fairies spawn.
