Lina Thimble

www.asparkofmagic.blogspot.com.facebbookfacebook Donna Jeanne EllisonHello Everyone, This is Delbert.  I've been busy today but not too busy to gather some gossip as well as nectar.  Lina is my topic today.  She is a human girl who was born small and learned to fly so she could spend time with fairies, who were also her size.  She loves to run up the arm of larger humans and kiss them on the cheek.  So if you feel something like a kiss, Lina may have been around.  In Thimblewyck:The Origins you can read about Lina's childhood.  But I can tell you a bit.  First of all it wasn't very long.  The fairies gave her a growth spurt when she first came into the world because she was also too small for her adopted father Tom Thimble to take care of.  Today's picture is of Tom's stone cottage.  So Lina grew up in about a year and married Binar, the flower steward or prince of the fairies.  But he didn't know he was a prince until Lina helped him discover it.  Maybe I should tell you why Lina was so small.  Marus, a very brave fairy, and a friend of mine, kidnapped her from Heaven before she was born.  Her soul was on the way to earth to be born but her parents were engulfed in an evil fire.  Marus tried to save them and got his wings burned for his trouble. So then he did what fairies have been (falsely) rumored to do, he snatched a human child.  He snatched the soul before it could be incinerated and infused it into a seed to keep it from drifting apart into thin air.  Then he found the Thimble's, Tom and Gerda, to raise the child.  Lina has wings made from spider silk and she can really fly.  I can too.  I'm going to buzz off now.  Bye.