Forest Elf

A couple guys and I had gone camping in the woods for the weekend. We weren’t exactly the best at being the rugged outdoors types. We couldn’t get a fire started, and we hopped into the car to drive to the closest McDonalds for dinner instead of cooking using the small propane grill we brought. We did all agree that it was an accomplishment that we got our tents set up, however!

Needing to use the bathroom in the middle of the night was an expected inconvenience, but the full moon lit my way from the tents to deeper in the woods. What I hadn’t expected was the ground to crumble beneath my feet due to a sinkhole, exposing an underground lake. Thanks to the light of the moon, I managed not to fall in myself, but I heard a faint “Hello?” from underground.

When I went down into the hole to investigate, I discovered the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She looked slightly more like an elf than human with her pointy ears and pale skin along with her white hair and blue eyes. Without saying another word, she dove into the underground lake, and like an idiot I dove in after her. There was some sort of weird magic in there and when we were swimming it caused us to switch bodies.

“Oh, thank goodness!” She said with my voice, “I’ve been trapped down here forever. Now I can finally leave.”

“What do you mean?” I asked with the sweet pleasant tone of her voice.

“I am, or I was, a forest elf. My skin, that you now have by the way, can’t be exposed to sunlight. I will burn up. And so I lived under the forest eating earthworms and tree roots. I could only emerge at night when most of you humans are asleep. Most of my kind were murdered by humans long along, but the mutation of sun sensitive skin kept others like me out of reach, or a least out of sight. I’m sorry for the fate of my life that I have doomed you to, but I deserve a life on the surface.”

“And I don’t?” I tried to argue as she simply climbed back up and away.