She was amazing. Her mane and tail with a mess of all sorts of foliage, ferns, rounded leaves on stems, and really long blades of grass among others. Mostly green, but there was a little red and purple in there as well, just like normal plants. Her coat was a light brown, but had these odd textures that I realized was not just like bark, but because it was bark. Her eyes were the only thing close to normal, but even her eyelids were like the petals of some strange flower. I knew what she had to be and wanted to ask a whole lot of questions, but then I saw Angel and soon it was all forgotten and I was next to her like she didn't exist and grabbing the little bunny off her back and into a big hug.
"Oh Angel I was so worried."
"Well then that makes two of us, yea. Seems you came out alright like they said though."
The dryad then bowed to me. "It is a pleasure to meet you high queen. I am Lush."
"Trixie can see that."
"Wait." Said Sky "You're not talking about her hair, are you?"
"Trixie supposes that is true as well."
Rarity cleared her throat. "It's a pleasure to meet you. So might I assume dryads are both real and part of the fey?"
Lush nodded. "Yes. Like the pooka we are neutral. The concerns of animals are rarely our own. Many other fey and deer are willing to protect our woods, and beyond that we have little concern. At least as a race."
"Yea." Angel hopped out of my hooves and landed on the ground. "See it's like this. Some dryads care a whole bunch about ponies, if ya get my meaning."
I blushed. "You mean like the legends and…"
"Not just that, but yea. They gots reasons, one way or another. The rest don't care none as long as they got a good tree to bond with, plenty o sunlight, and good soil."
Lush smiled. "Yes, but most of all we simply want nothing to do with the courts."
"The only sane response from what I know." Said Sky
"Possibly, but you must understand very few fey have a choice. But I am not here to discuss such things. I am here to teach."
"And you should all be here to learn." Said Wynn. "Let us begin."
There was a bright flash and we were no longer in Wynn's field, but a clearing with no landmarks nearby. I wasn't even sure if we were in the same forest. I gulped. I really didn't want to do more magic training, but I had to.