Another Halfbreed

Every once in a while, every once in a great while, a troll maiden is born in the shape of a human or almost a human with only branches growing from her back to mark her trollness. When humans see these lovely human-shaped troll maiden, they either wonder for their beauty and fall in love with them or fear their strangeness. But most of the time, it was the latter.

But when trolls look at these human-shaped troll maidens, they see sorrow and a passing and a life lived flitting on the borders between the two worlds. These lovely troll maidens do not live long troll lives. They live to what humans may think to be extremely old age, but for a troll, it is but the blink of an eye.

The trolls rejoice and grieve for these fleeting creatures, who are neither one thing or the other. As they delight in watching a butterfly flutter in the air or a bee dance above a flower, the trolls delight in caring for and watching over these delicate, humanlike creatures.

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