Chapter Text
Title: The Butterfly Effect or Why Titania Meddles
Rating: General
Words: 290
Prompt #61 Winter
"The Butterfly Effect" by Karrenia
She hides in the shadows, biding her time. Knowing just enough of how and why the game is played to avoid stepping over that invisible line. Perhaps it is the thrill and the contrast variety provided by those she watches. It's more than just game.
Despite what her husband, Oberon, might say not everything that dwells in shadows, is by its own nature, a bad thing. Titania has had centuries of practice at playing this game.
It much like a butterfly effect, what happens one end of a spectrum will affect what happens at the other end. And like the delicate gossamer wings of that particular insect Titania knew that she had to tread lightly. Butterflies usually do not live long past their metamorphosis stage, and usually do not survive the cold climates.
As one of the fay, she is of course, much stronger than a butterfly and can deal with winter as it comes. But she likes the comparison and she likes the theory that even one small change can cause greater ripples along the way. That applies to the mortal world than her own of shadows and secrecy.
The mortal world has been more or less off limits to her people, and she is very much aware that she can affect only so much, but since The Lord of Avalon declared that the time of the Gathering was at hand, Titania realizes that she has to step in. She has a claim after all, even if, her daughter, Fox, might not agree with it. Titania smiles, wondering how well Goliath and his clan of gargoyles are dealing with the fallout of those two very long nights. "Good fortune, my friend, you are going to require it," she whispers.