Wild Imagination
Monday, November 24, 2003
Butterfly Kings
You may imagine that monarch butterflies are so named without reason, but in fact they are the steeds of the Faerie Kings, who flitter about on their mighty beasts with sublime aimlessness. To a Faerie, indeed, it is a sin to pretend that you know where you are going.
You cannot see the Faeries on the backs of butterflies because they will not let you see. They hide in the folds of the wind from all creatures with eyes, and especially from the creatures whose eyes may understand what they see. They do not like to be understood, and they distain to be followed by anyone.
That is why the Kings are separated from the other faeries, with no one to rule except the bugs, the plants and each other. They take turns playing rulers and rebels, fighting with their symphonies of insects. Cicadas are particularly popular instruments of art and war, compelled under the sway of their masters’ magic to sing in a language they cannot understand. With such poetry and song, the Kings make alliances and break them, declare victory and decry the tragedy of their betrayals—all without even a single drop of faerie blood.
All Faeries are aware that were these Kings, in their reveries of poetic war, to allow such blood to touch the skin of any earthly thing, it would be as if stars had collided, and a vast fury of light would blind them all.
Since the Faerie Kings make war with art, and never rule any other Faeries but themselves, they tend to displace the Faerie Musicians and Poets out of their jobs. Unable to compete, these are left with nothing to do but govern the rest of the Faerie peoples.
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