I dreamt I was helping the MajjTome, a hidden folk similar to the fae in some ways but with their own set of peculiarities. While they used to mostly live in their hidden realm, in recent years they have started existing more often in our realm, finding ways to hide in plain sight. They take well to society's outliers and are more likely to interact with people who are "touched" in some way. They live for a very long time, some of them nearly immortal, but they aren't invincible. When they want to live in the human world, they usually shapeshift and try to take the place of someone who is sickly and dying, often excusing any slight differences to the person they replaced to the illness that affected them. They don't kidnap or bargain for children to increase their ranks, nor do they need to as they are able to breed just fine. But they do allow outliers to join them, if people are useful enough in some way. You just have to ask them for a Home and demonstrate a useful skill that makes them want to keep you around. That's getting harder these days though, as times are difficult and there are a lot of shunned people seeking refuge. But live among them long enough, and you might become a MajjTome too...
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