2376 FY | 1625 BC
We open on an old elven master at the end of his life who dies asking for his daughter. In this period of Fabella, the news is mostly spread orally by riders on winged mounts. This kind of work is slow and it takes the better part of a year for daughter Kalla to learn her father is even dead.
Grieving that she couldn’t be there for her father in his final moments, Kalla starts thinking about how to increase the speed of news in Fabella. Riders are undependable and their labor isn’t cheap so it’s not a great system. After studying how fairies have an amazing talent for direction and memory, Kalla decides to start a message service made up of these little sprites.
My girl sets to work raising an entire fairy colony from birth and training them to speak so they can deliver messages. Fairies in Fabella are all born female and one of them undergoes a sex change to become the alpha male for reproduction. They’re faster than the riders, have no political leanings preventing them from being dishonest, and require no payment for their services. No owls for us JK Rowling!
Naturally, when the riders find out about this they aren’t too pleased. The riders retaliate against Kalla by snatching up and killing her fairies. Kalla speaks to the riders, complaining about how they’re interfering with her business, but they don’t care. It’s unbecoming for an elven mistress to be involved in such affairs outside the home.
All of Kalla’s fairies are dead except for one. This one fairy continues to deliver messages by herself.
When a cruel rider mortally wounds Kalla, the fairy flies to her aid and she is saved thanks to the brave little sprite. The Fairy Post goes on to be adopted across Fabella and Kalla is forever remembered as the Mother of Communication.