Perhaps a beginning - at least an Introduction

        They are clever sprites, each in his own way.  Politically a cut above the rest, they also possess a superiority of mind which does not always accompany aristocracy.  They had met, perhaps, at one of the fabulous but forgettable court functions to which young faeries of a certain standing are sent.  Was it friendship at first sight?  No, but they shared the heady companionship of youth, and as the days fell away they were drawn together with the inexorable bonds of friendship.
Elm is the more memorable of the two.  It is his precocious spirit which instigates most of  the mischief and destruction that follows the path of their play.  With sandy brown hair and nut colored skin, he physically reflects the heritage of the tree faeries, dwellers in bark and shade.  But his direct eyes, dark brown with flecks of gold, prove him to be of noble lineage, descendant of the old and lordly elms.  What is seen by most as boldness in his youth, is understood by a few to be the habit of years of authority, passed down to this youngest generation of nobility.
If Elm was the perpetrator of mischief, then according to common perception, Vetch was his sidekick.  His true function, however, is more accurately that of an alter ego, a complementary nature to Elm.  Vetch was a dreamer, and generally a more cautious and humble faery.  He was one of the field lords, unimportant and outlandish, yet a child of the sun and sky, with the wheat gold hair, blue eyes, and light complexion to prove it.  He is sensitive rather than confident, though it is not peer pressure which leads him into Elm’s escapades, but rather a security in their friendship which frees Vetch to be as rowdy as a young sprite ought.  He is analytical, not unaware of his own faults of fear, emotional variance, and irrationality - but being so aware he is more likely to control those faults than the high-tempered Elm.  Thus many faeries who considered Elm to be incorrigible but clever, and Vetch as steady and calm, could not understand their dynamic camaraderie, when the reality of their relationship was exactly the opposite.