The Hollow Fairy

She has no proper name. No record. No classification in any Duskwell archive.

Locals call her the Hollow Fairy—a term used with unease, not affection.

Descriptions are eerily consistent across sightings:

• Pale blue skin, softly glowing

• Long golden hair

• Translucent dragonfly-like wings

• Always barefoot

• Always smiling

She never speaks.
She never blinks.
She simply appears—often just ahead—inviting strangers toward places in Grief Hollow that were never mapped.

Her gestures are deliberate: a nod, a raised hand, a slow point toward something buried or forbidden.
She does not warn. She does not threaten.

And yet, those who follow her rarely return unchanged—if at all.

Most encounters begin in dreams.
She visits first while the subject sleeps—appearing in silent visions of the Hollow long before any expedition is undertaken.
For this reason, some scholars argue she is a hallucination, a resonance-born echo seeded by proximity to the Hollow Seed.

Others insist she is real.
A guardian.
A guide.
Or something older that wears innocence like a mask.

What is known is this:

She does not force the Hollow on anyone.
She simply opens the path.