title: What the Faeries Left Behind
author:  Amber Michelle Cook 
description: Amber Michelle Cook writes stories of deep, meaningful fun. And she's a photography/graphic arts artist of color and wonder living in the great Northwest. Partly raised in Germany, she went to an international school for high-school, majored in linguistics, loves literature and period pieces. Aside from words and stories, she adores dogs, and is fascinated by any and everything aquatic.
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  Faeries tread the faerie path
  
  
  Amber-trapped though moth-wing light they be
  
  
  Mortals stay in mortal world
  
  
  Iron-clad with half-blind eyes they see
  
  
  One alone wil walk both worlds
  
  
  Daughter last of daughters seven
  
  
  With her true love by her side
  
  
  Honest hand in true love given
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Part 1: Anita
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
  Anita Palmer stepped out of the shower and reached for the bath towel.
  Wrapping it around herself, she padded over to the mirror. She lifted her hand
  and swept a clear path across the misted glass before leaning forward to look
  at her reflection.
  
  
  Her long red hair clung to her head like seaweed to a rock, framing her heart-
  shaped face with its
  
  
  wide mouth and high cheekbones. She leaned closer, staring into her mirrored
  eyes. The irises
  
  
  were a smoky green. Nothing particularly remarkable about them.
  
  
  Or was there?
  
  
  She leaned even closer.
  
  
  Gold flecks deep in the green irises—that was what she was looking for.
  
  
  Evan had said that if he loo