Boots...

Lil' Boots made a decision.  If he was going to be stuck in this strange new place, he needed to do something that would get his mind off of his situation and start looking for ways to get home.  "I don't want to be stuck in this white glittery place with no trees or bushes and making friends with rocks was not on my immediate plans.  They take forever to speak up and I don't want to be here that long waiting," he told himself as he stood up from the white rock he had been sitting on.

"The landscape looks the same in all directions, so I have as much of a chance finding others or a way out no matter which direction I chose to go," he thought.  "I am going to close my eyes,  spin around in a circle and when I stop that would be the direction I will go,"  he decided.  Planting the heel of one boot on the ground and starting his spin, he was reminded of how he got his name.  "Lil' Boots indeed," he smiled at the memory. 

It had been during the time of the Wish Dragons when wishes had been granted willy nilly making strange things starting to happen.  One day he had been sitting on a tree branch when out of no where a cat appeared.  This was not an ordinary cat as it wore a tunic, carried a small sword, and had on a pair of large boots on its back feet!  The little fae was used to cats walking on all fours, but this cat stood erect and walked like one of the Outies that had came to the realm.  At first the cat was too distracted to notice the little fairy in the tree as it was wailing that it needed to get home to help his master, the '​Marquis of Carabas'.  

As the cat sat on a log and complained about it's problem, the little fae's heart strings were tugged.  "I wonder if I can help him," he thought.  It was then that the fae remembered that he had found a key (portal stone) that a Brownie had lost and still had not returned it.  "It's a good thing I watched a Brownie use one before," he told himself as he decided to fly down to the cat and offer his help.

"Hello," he said as he hovered over the unsuspecting cat.  "Do you need help?"  The startled cat looked all over but did not see anyone!  "Where are you?" it asked.  "Look up," was the reply he received.  As the cat peered upwards, it was startled to find a fairy floating in the air over it's head.  "I must have hit my head," the cat muttered to himself.

"Do you need help?" the fae asked again.  Back home, this cat was known to think fast and quickly realized that any help he could get was better than no help so it replied, "I need to get back to my master's castle before the ogre returns." 

"That's easy," answered the little fae as he held up the portal stone and told the cat to look through the hole and think about where it wanted to go.  In an instant the cat could see the castle.  "I see it, now what?" he asked the fae.  "Just tell yourself that is where you want to be, but make sure that you pick the spot you want to appear or you might find yourself in a tree or pond," answered the fae.

Before the cat disappeared though, he wanted to give the fae a gift.  It was the cat's most precious possession... his boots.  From that day forward, the little fae had picked his name.  He was now Lil' Boots!

As Lil' Boots stopped spinning, his mind was clearer and he realized that he was in the same predicament as the cat those many years ago.  "Now to find someone who can help me get out of this place," thought Lil' Boots as he also wished he had not yet returned that portal stone to the Brownie who had lost it.