Emily couldn't sleep. She kept closing her eyes but it didn't seem like a time to sleep. She wanted to do something, just to occupy her busy mind. She watched a strange creature fly over to her tree and hook itself on a branch near her. It looked like a butterfly with only one set of wings, which were transparent and seemed to glow. It had a tail and curled around the branch so it could rest its middle. Emily watched it and its beauty; she didn't think that something this pretty could be found in a place so dark and full of death.
“Hello,” it said.
Emily propped herself up on her elbow. “Hi, what are you?”
“An augothas.” it replied and fluttered its wings. “Are you a half-ling?”
“Yes, how did you know? Is it that obvious?”
The augothas seemed to cock its head. “Well you can't be a faery because you don't have the ears and you can't be a pixie because they're always giggling around. How can you understand me?”
Emily shrugged. “I don't know, it's this new power I have. My friend has one too.”
“That sounds like the other one.”
“What do you mean?” she asked.
The augothas uncurled its tail and took off in the air. “I must go, friend. Good luck.” It took off into the sky and Emily couldn't see it anymore.
She sighed and leaned back. This was getting too complicated.