The Tale of Vera and the Gnomes of Minas by: Valentino Incanto Profferi ©Valentino Incanto Profferi 2009 The story told here is utterly fictitious and any resemblance between the characters herein or the events depicted and any true incident depicted by the Fairy tale is completely coincidental and unintentional. Dedicated to Jennifer Vera and Pardal was a happily married couple in Manaos, Brazil, the capital of the state of Amazônas. They had had two children and Vera had been pregnant with a third when Vera had expressed interest in having a seamstress shop when the children were a little older. Pardal, which means sparrow, was an unremarkable brown man with years of experience as a gambling game man. Pardal was well known by local players and local officials as an organizer and dealer. He had been periodically imprisoned for his trade when the Federal government raised it as an issue. But likewise, he had been released to resume his trade as soon as the temporary fervour died down. He made a good profit with his game of the beast, “Jogo do Bicho.” Before meeting Vera and being married, Pardal and an associate had used their earnings to open a legal bar and restaurant. To keep his business free of incriminating troubles he continued dealing his illicit card game in the old alley one block away from the Military Base, from which many of his clients came. Vera had been a busy mother for some twelve years by now and the kids were often out of the house now. The boy and the girl each had their circle of colleagues and friends at school and after school. Right after school the son played soccer and the daughter volleyball. After that they helped themselves to dinner and went off to practice with the Samba Club. He played the whistle and the tambourine while dancing. With her youthful grace the daughter had already joined the other primary dancing company and thought of little else. It had been shortly after the end of year holidays that the Federal Police had rounded up the partakers in the game of the beast once more. There had been a few years reprieve until now. Vera settled down to wait out the cyclical court cases that invariably ended in pardons ultimately. As she had almost all the funds needed for the seamstress shop, Vera decided to take a job as the kids were old enough now. She found herself working as a receptionist at a little private security company near the harbour. Like most of the employees, including the Native Amazonian named Calanginho, Vera rode the bus to work and back. Having the afternoon and evenings at work, Vera often heard the incident reports that were made by the day duty guards. Over the course of only a few weeks Vera heard of three incidents of appearing and disappearing figures at the central square near the city theatre, Praça São Sebastião. After having heard a third report of an appearing Fairy woman with whom the employed Native Amazonian was returning to the forest with, Vera’s curiosity peaked and she felt compelled to investigate. Not knowing what may happen; Vera left the two kids in the care of her mother for a few days. She packed a basket with a substantial picnic and set off for the downtown park on a breezy Saturday morning at dawn. From a bench across the square Vera watched the security guard struggling to stay attentive. It was a busy day for the Fairies fortunately for Vera, who did not have to wait long. The sun had not even properly risen over the horizon yet and Vera was there as a witness. A small troop of approximately six Dwarves materialized before her eyes waking directly across the square toward the theatre. In their march they passed directly through concrete park benches and later through the steel and glass doors to the theatre. The fact that the doors were shackled with chains and locked did not slow them in the least. Vera watched the panic-stricken guard groaning in his distress to himself. What seemed to have been only a few minutes later, Vera saw the same little troop returning with two new Dwarves in tow. This time she stood up and hailed them as if they were true, real and solid. To her great delight they solidified before her own eyes to answer her questions. The primary question was of course, “How do you do that, walk though solid matter.” The answer was equally simple but harder to comprehend. “One must allow themselves to be energy instead of matter, it is a capacity we all have in our minds. Humans can never vanish because they like matter too much and they think they can be matter in a total way. “ After a few minutes of talk the littlest of the Dwarves stepped forth and invited the plump and matronly Vera to come with them to their abode in the mines of Minas Gerais. Vera accepted the invitation with a curtsy but found it difficult to imagine how they would travel to far south. Having collected the items they sought after in the city of Manaos, The little troop made their way back through the city virtually unseen. Having to unlock one of the theatre doors for Vera to pass through, the group made their way to the back of the stage to stage left where a Fairyland passage entry had been obscured by the paraphernalia of modern global culture. They asked Vera to completely clear her mind of any thoughts and desires, took both her hands and led her down into the dark stone like passage. After loping for no more than about twenty minutes they had travelled to the south of Brazil into the ancient hills of Minas Gerais. They emerged from the dark passage into a knoll of grass in between the hills miles away from the nearest metropolises, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia. Vera could feel that something was different with the time in this place, but she did not know what was happening. It was enough simply to wonder at having travelled over a thousand miles south in only a few minutes. Travelling by these time-space gaps was an excellent way to travel in time as well as space, however, Vera had no idea how it had been done. As she was not a witch she would not be taught and that was the end of that. Instead of unravelling the secret of the Fairyland passages, Vera was distracted from her thoughts by hearty fire cooked food, delectable and intoxicating Fairy Draughts, and sexual entanglements with different members of the troop of Dwarves. As soon as Vera found herself to be drunk on the Fairy brew she also found herself skewered at her head and tail between two exceptionally well endowed older Dwarves who were playing at making Vera a cream stuffed rotisserie between them. For what must have been hour upon hour Vera moaned while at the mercy of their pleasure rods. The prong from one Dwarf simply was replaced by that of another after one inseminator had his fill with one of Vera’s orifices. She had never been had by a group and found the experience more gratifying than any had before. Several hours later the procession continued with Vera being embuggered in addition to being inseminated by the short, hairy, and muscular Dwarves. Vera swooned repeatedly where she knelt on all four upon a mass of cushioning leaf litter. Sweat and satisfaction streamed out of her hot skin and its open pores. Her labia were swollen and damp whilst oozing thick globules of semen of various shades of white and some that was a rich yellowish tinge. The eating, drinking, and fornicating went on all through the day and the night with new Dwarves and other Fairies coming to the celebration revolving around Vera. When the first light of the new sun shone over the horizon Vera was finally disengaged from every penetrating male organ that had passed through and discharged inside her body. After eating a few dove and finch eggs with a few handfuls of fresh fruit Vera finally dozed off still leaning on the chest of one of the Dwarves. They left her to sleep for a bit over a half hour. When they awoke Vera they told her they would have to take her back to Manaos as she was expected at work that Sunday morning as it was part of her weekend rotation with the other receptionists. Vera looked at her watch and had a moment of panic being in Minas Gerais and having only ten minutes to get to work. The Dwarf who was taking her back assured Vera that they would be early at her office to give her time to freshen up and perfume herself in the restroom beforehand. As promised Vera and the Dwarf emerged from the time-space gap at the theatre two hours prior to her scheduled work time. They had travelled back in time using the Time-space gap. Leaving Vera at the central square to find her way to work by bus, the Dwarf vanished from sight once more. Before vanishing from Vera’s side the Dwarf had assured her of a few changes to come in the near future. She would be pregnant with a Fairy Changeling child. Pardal would be pardoned and released the following week. They should move to an old abandoned Ranch outside of the metropolis to raise their children. Their family would never again be lacking anything they desired as long as they inhabited the old deserted ranch which they would be able to purchase easily as wealth would come to them as long as they looked after the Changeling in the proper natural setting. As was predicted were the lives of Vera and Pardal after. The abandoned ranch which was swarming with Fairies provided an excellent place to run the seamstress business from and the Banana plantation provided excellent cover for Pardal to continue his lucrative illicit game of the beast. The Changeling child grew up into a wizard with substantial notoriety as he spread good fortune and satisfaction with life about the region. END