2012-05-15 - 12:41 p.m.
#Nixies:
The nixies of Pomona forest live in and around a rocky pond nestled between two great cherry blossom trees. Near the pond is a small hill cornered by fruit trees and around the pond are many patches of flowers: lillies, irises,and daffodils among them. The pond itself is cradled by groupings of cattails and on its surface are many lily pads for the nixies to climb on.
The rocky sides of the pond house little pockets, worn in perfectly to the shapes of the small child-like nixies. Nixies are able to breath underwater but spend most of their time on the surface. Only at night do they crawl into their underwater craddles to sleep. During the day, the nixies eat the nectar of flowers with the use of their long thin tongues. On occasion, they will eat some fruit - mostly small berries, many of them unedible to humans. Sometimes, Nixies will eat the fallen blossoms of the cherry trees.
Nixies are playful and enjoy guests but only once they have been successfully charmed. Otherwise, nixies are uncomfortable around other races with the exception of human children whom they universally enjoy.
So great is the nixie's like for children that they have been known to abduct children from villages or passing caravans and bring them to their idyllic ponds to play and swim. Nixies, however, have no knowledge of how to care for children. Children that become hungry are given poisonous fruit and flowers, neither of which sustains them. Children in the care of nixies innevitably succumb to starvation, often found in small piles of flowers - nibbled but never eaten.