Elfstruck is an Amazon Kindle short story by Heather Farthing.
The narrator is an old soldier telling a younger man about an encounter with a strange woman after getting separated from his group.
Elfstruck features the following tropes:
- Clockwork Creature: The Ice Maiden has wings with visible gearwork, a clock in her tail, and ticks.
- Feathered Fiend: Soldiers in the narrator's world apparently ride Terror Birds
. - The Fair Folk: Nothing about his encounter suggests "human."
- No Name Given: Everybody.
- Old Soldier: The narrator has spent most of his life guarding the place he met the Ice Maiden.
- Winged Humanoid: The Ice Maiden.
