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Wood sprites

For a moment Susan thought she had lost her quarry, then came a rustling from a bush, followed by another shushing.

"Aha!" Susan grabbed the bush and pulled branches aside.

Hiding there were two figures, each one no taller than knee height, but anatomically correct as female and quite naked. One had green skin with a texture like leaves, the other rough brown skin like tree bark.

"Who are you?" Susan asked.

"I'm... I'm Folia." Replied the green one, "This is Barka."

"Did you bring me back here?"

"Well... Sort of."

"Sort of? I'm here!"

"We didn't exactly mean to." Barka said, "We just found that horn, and Folia said that nothing would happen so we should go ahead and blow it."

"No," Folia interrupted, "I said something might happen, so we shouldn't blow it."

"Are you sure?"

"Unless it was the other way around."

"So you didn't mean for me to come?" Susan said.

"No."

"Right. Then I wonder how I get home again."

"Can't you go back the way you came?" asked Folia.

"I was pulled through the air and had half my clothes ripped off," Susan replied, "so I'd rather not. Last time we had to save the land and sort of earn our way back."

"You need a quest of some kind?" Barka asked.

"Something like that, then I suppose I'll just find myself leaving."

"Oh, we can help you with that! Follow us!"

The two sprites nimbly slipped through the other side of the bush and away.

"Hey, hold on!" Susan called after them, seeing no way to follow except by pushing through the branches. She began to do this, and heard a harsh tearing noise.