The Wizard of England & His Search For a Missing Fairy

(This is some of the backstory of a gentleman who gained the reputation of being a wizard in modern times. Refresh the page if ‘charm’ & ‘mystery quest’ fonts aren’t displaying.)

Although mostly forgotten and unknown to humans, there are in fact superior beings from a higher world that came to be known as fairies. While they still resemble us, they are more excellent in both mind and body. The word ‘Fairy’ became known as meaning both the higher world species as a whole and also its female members. Many humans began using the word ‘Elf’ when referring to a higher world male. But a higher world male is correctly called a ‘Saltor.’ 

A long history of the higher world’s dealings with us was gradually gathered together over many centuries into a compendium of records that came by fate into the hands of one man. At the time that this happened, he was one of few deep believers in the superior species. This man was Raymond Ashford and the records are called the ‘Higher World Contact Archives,’ often called the H.W.C. Archives. 

Fairies long ago stopped visiting our world except for rare and important cases because they came to realise that it has a corrupting influence that can be highly detrimental to them. They used to visit us on what were known as ‘Errands of Benevolence.’ They would usually come and go without revealing much about who or what they were. It became common for them to come to us in what is called ‘Condensed Form.’ This consisted in an appealing, small and humble form which they used as a way of preventing us from being intimated by them. Errands of Benevolence generally consisted in acts of kindness, usually in the form of little services and sometimes big and generous favours. Sometimes they were said to speak to the lonely, provide for the destitute and protect us from various dangers, both moderate and severe.   

Fairies were often but not always depicted as having wings. Relatively early on in the history of the higher world, the wing channel was invented. A wing channel was a highly sophisticated and enchanted device with openings in it. It was designed to be strapped to a fairy’s back and could channel energy at the will of the wearer. The result was the forming of luminous, slightly transparent wings which functioned quite well for some but not so well for the less powerful and experienced among fairies. Lower ranking fairies could not use such things with much efficiency as it required a high degree of energy and practise to master. Wings later declined in popularity and were eventually considered to be old fashioned. Being very happy and content creatures, fairies were never over excited at the prospect of having wings, nor were they concerned much about not having them. Those who were not so powerful tended to use them for low and short flights. For example, they could fly over lakes and rivers and also up and down forest trees. Wings could also be used to provide light and attract certain water and land-dwelling creatures. 

One of the most significant events in the history of the higher world took place during the lifetime of Raymond who after studying wizardry, learned how to get in contact with the remote and mysterious species, who by then were widely considered to be nothing more than a myth and the subject of creative imagination, campfire tales and songs. 

The Queen of the forgotten world reached out to him through her most trusted advisor, Vanessa of Alphiabrook who was also in charge of the Royal Spokes Persons Unit, a political arm and voice used by the higher world monarch to communicate with other provinces within its own realm and occasionally to communicate with select human beings who are capable of and open to such communication. 

Raymond had a taste for the old fashioned and sat at his oakwood desk one day, feeling the approach of a fairy. He had his feathered pen and old, cream sheets of paper at the ready. 

He would usually get a distinct feeling for several hours in advance, before a fairy made contact with him. He knew that they liked to speak only when he was in a quiet and recollected place with natural lighting either from the sun or a candle. They liked natural things and natural light and while they admired the technology of modern man, they themselves had an aversion to it. 

Raymond made money by living like an old-fashioned wanderer wizard with robes and a hat. People would come to see him and listen to his passionate speeches in favour of simplistic living and his delightful fairy-tales which were in fact documented accounts of Errands of Benevolence from the H.W.C. Archives, one of which was as recent as the fourteenth century and involved a series of visits from a young higher world male to a girl named Catherine Stone who called him ‘the fair elf,’ ‘my garden elf’ and later, ‘the elf who never returned.’ Parents would take their children to see Raymond and leave money for him. He would go from place to place, traveling and often sleeping in a wooden Victorian style carriage pulled by a horse. He would station himself at town squares and public parks where crowds of people would gather round to listen to him.  He would take the addresses of anyone who wanted to write to him and receive his inspiring and helpful letters. He would also bring gifts such as cakes and wooden toys to the children which he kept in the back of his carriage. After a few days in one place, he would then move on somewhere else. This was all taking place in the digital age, though the smartphone had not yet been invented. Gradually Raymond with his anti-materialism message and riveting tales, as well as his medieval, fantasy attire and charm became known throughout the country as the ‘Wizard of England.’

He was also sometimes called ‘the wizard of Guildhall’ because with all his money, he was able to rent out a large space under the floors of Guildhall Library where he moved all the old books and documents that comprised the Higher World Contact Archives. He had a room down there with an old lantern. The library management organised for the creation of a trap door leading down to his archive for dramatic effect and anyone visiting him while he was there would have to purchase a ticket. Part of the cost for these tickets would go to the wizard and the library would keep the rest. 

Raymond could now strongly sense that communication had been initiated by a nonverbal voice that was felt rather than heard and said, “are you prepared?”

He closed his eyes and nodded slowly, giving inward assent.

The voice then became audible but was intermittent, being heard in short bursts of sharp whispering and during slight humming and buzzing sounds, similar to the zapping sound sometimes made by an electrical current and sometimes softer, like the hum of a bee’s wings.  

“Raymond. I am Vanessa. I speak on behalf of my Queen. Her daughter, the firstborn is missing.”

Then several other voices spoke with her and repeated the words, “firstborn is missing.”

Raymond spoke back in a low voice, “missing? A fairy? Can you repeat that sentence?”

Vanessa spoke again. “Raymond, one of our kind and status should not have to repeat herself to you. Did you not tell me you were prepared for this conversation? The Queen’s firstborn daughter is missing. She has been stolen.”

Raymond asked, “and do you know by whom and by what means?”

“We know little about him. But he is dead now. He was killed unlawfully by one of our own who descended to your world without permission in pursuit of the child. We believe this fairy has become corrupt and we have lost contact with her. The culprit used a form of witchcraft that we are still striving to analyse correctly.”

Raymond felt a sense of deep worry and concern at the same time. A fallen fairy was a terrifying concept. And a lost one in danger of becoming corrupt added fresh layers of alarm and urgency.  

“Then I must look for her myself” he said abruptly.

“We know that you have good discernment and should you ever come across the fairy, you will know that she is one of our kind. And should her full name have been retained, it may also serve as an aid in locating her.  The royal one’s name is Stephanie Goldmaracynthia Bell. Our people and my Queen request that you do what is in your power to locate her and inform us of her whereabouts and condition. We cannot know where individuals are unless we can first speak to them.”

Raymond breathed deeply in and out as he said his last sentence. “This is a difficult case but I will gladly do as your Queen requests Vanessa.”

There was a pause but the humming sound continued. Then Vanessa closed the communication with the words, “on behalf of my Queen… and our people, I thank you Raymond.”

He realised that his heart was beating quickly. It had been an intense conversation and he had been carefully taking notes as the fairy spoke to him. A meddler in witchcraft had summoned a royal fairy, Stephanie Goldmaracynthia Bell, while she was still in her infant years. She was said to be the firstborn, meaning that she would be next in line for the Crown of the Higher World. Then another fairy went to Earth in pursuit of her, perhaps one who had some kind of special care of the royal infant and perhaps felt she had to make a fast decision and take a big risk. But she was not prepared to withstand the corrupting influence of Earth and must have destroyed the kidnapper of the princess in a fit of anger. At some point, this fairy became corrupt. Perhaps it was at the moment that she took vengeance on the kidnapper? But was that not the justified killing of a dangerous enemy? Then it seems that, after becoming corrupt, this fairy stopped communicating with the higher world and went missing, together with the royal child. The fairies then reached out to him to look for her. She could perhaps be recognised if her full name was kept and if he were ever to discover any signs of someone with a fairy nature, he was to report it. There was that added depth about someone who was a fairy and that distinctive presence that he had gradually become attuned to. These signs however, could be quite subtle, even for him, a man who was quite the specialist when it came to fairies. But a fairy that was to grow up on earth would probably lose those other more obvious signs of fairy nature which included a kind of brightness and ethereal aura that came with being completely uncontaminated by Earth and knowing that they were from a higher world and had experienced it.

It wasn’t too likely that the name of the fairy had been retained. If that was the case, the chances of finding her were truly slim. But perhaps he would not need to find her. Perhaps, when she grew a little older, she might sense that inner call to her true home world and with communication and guidance, learn to let her life essence return to were it belonged. But the ability to transfer the life essence between two contrasting worlds was no simple matter. One had to be prepared, separated in thought and desire from anything holding them back and wholly dedicated to some purpose in the other world, before they could make the transition. There was also a way to do this while the body remained in one world while the life essence received what was called a ‘Temp-Body’ in the other world. A temp-body which derives from the term, ‘temporary temple of the life essence’ was a realistic yet fake body, formed naturally and animated by the power and energy of the life essence. Its actual physical substance was no more than transformed air molecules.

The other, more dramatic way of transition where the true body along with the life essence relocated together to another world was by a process called ‘Recessive Outer Form Transition’ and meant that after a profound calming of mind and body and by a huge surge of willpower, the body or outer form could recede temporarily into the life essence, so that it was almost entirely spiritual, but not quite. Its particles joined themselves to light photons that were themselves joined to a more intellectual and invisible light, flowing from the life essence. While in this state, the life essence could go where it wished at a speed that was undefined but was considered to come close to or actually be that of thought, meaning that the entity would simply have to will and therefore think of their destination in order to be there. When they arrived, there would be a great brightness as if lightning had struck and the body would reemerge back into its natural state.

And so began the long search for the fairy Queen’s daughter. Raymond continued to attract visitors and would ask if anyone knew anything about the missing one. Every now and then, a girl would come forward and declare that she was the mysterious fairy. But with his deep knowledge of fairies, Raymond was able to verify that such claimants were only human and not of the high and wonderous fairy species. Besides this, it seemed that no one bore the full name that was given to the higher world princess. One ambitious girl, eager for attention, tried to get her brother to buy her a fake passport and birth cert since he used the dark net from time to time. She wanted the documents to say that she was Stephanie Goldmaracynthia Bell from Berkshire. When he refused, she took to the internet, claiming that she was the missing fairy spoken about by the Wizard of Guildhall. She did her best to build a following and posted videos of herself wearing a long wig, beautiful dresses and doing magic tricks. But she failed miserably because no one really believed her and she was quite soon discovered to be a Jessicka Maria Cooper.

Besides this fraud, no means had availed to find someone with that strange middle name, ‘Goldmaracynthia.’ Raymond was aware that it might only be a matter of time before fans of his would name a child of theirs after various fairies he had spoken about, including the missing one. But the timing wouldn’t be correct. If still living somewhere on Earth, the fairy should be in her ninth year at that time. Internet searches for the mysterious name carried out by others on his behalf did not yet yield anything significant except for the Jessicka Cooper hoax and a few Quora questions and Reddit discussions. The mainstream media decided that Raymond would make a good story and mentioned him now and then but he never agreed to be interviewed, since, like his ethereal friends, he kept himself away from technology as much as possible. News channels didn’t want to make a fool of him because he was widely loved, so they refrained from saying that he was searching for a fairy princess which would simply spell ridicule because society rejected the notion of fairies being real. But they said that his reputation was impressive and that he spoke of simplistic living and told engaging fairy tales. Guildhall Library invested in advertisements run by the media to make more money out of the wizard of England. However, when he started leaving notices about the missing fairy, it was reported in the papers, television and radio much to the amusement of the people.

Every now and then the fairies would contact him but sadly, it was always the same news: nothing yet to report.

But it was in a small, obscure town in the South of England that the real Stephanie Goldmaracynthia Bell began to grow up.