Fairy Dust by Titania Woods

Author:Titania Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Twink landed lightly beside Sooze, eyes gleaming. ‘Is it the prank?’ she whispered.

Sooze flinched. ‘I – no – sort of,’ she muttered, cheeks blazing. ‘Just forget the prank, Twink!’

Twink’s face fell. ‘But I thought you were going to play one. Everyone’s in such a bad mood –’

‘Oh, who cares!’ burst out Sooze. ‘It’s not up to me to cheer them up, is it?’ She turned quickly away as the others arrived, not wanting to see the hurt look on Twink’s face.

Madame Brightfoot fluttered grandly down into their midst. Her rich purple hair was piled atop her head, and her red wings shone against the grey day.

‘Flower Formation, everyone!’ she cried. Her cobweb dress shimmered as she waved her arms about. ‘Quickly, quickly!’

Glumly, Sooze got into position with the others, holding hands with the fairies on either side of her. Once they were all in a circle, they opened their wings so that the very tips of them touched. From above, they looked like a many-petalled flower.

Madame nodded in approval. ‘Very nice. We shall now do a thank-you dance to the sprites for their ice pole – and once we have finished, I am sure that they will appear in response!’

The blood left Sooze’s face. Oh, no! Would the sprites appear and tell everyone what she had done? Woodenly, she tried to follow Madame’s steps as the dance began.

‘And sway to the left . . . spin once, twice, three times! Now, up in the air! Think thank-you thoughts!’ Madame hovered in the centre of the circle, waving her arms in time to the dance.

Sooze’s wings felt clammy. What on earth could she say? Um . . . thank you for the ice pole, she thought timidly. It was really glimmery until I broke it. Oh, that didn’t sound right at all!

‘Now land,’ said Madame finally. The fairies drifted to the ground. Beaming broadly, Madame cocked an ear at the pond. ‘Any moment now,’ she whispered.

Sooze nibbled her thumb. The pond’s icy surface stayed still and silent.

Madame’s purple eyebrows drew together. ‘How odd!’ She straightened abruptly. ‘We shall try the dance again! Someone wasn’t thinking hard enough! Come now, quickly!’

This time when they finished the dance, Madame got on her hands and knees, cupping a hand about her ear as she listened. ‘But I do not understand!’ she murmured. ‘I am sure we did the dance perfectly.’ She looked up at the ice pole, frowning in puzzlement.

Sooze stifled a yelp. She might see the broken robin! ‘Please, Madame – I think they’re just tired!’ she blurted.

Madame stared at her. ‘Tired? What do you mean?’

Sooze swallowed. ‘I – I was down here before class started, and I saw one of them. He said they’re tired of all the attention they’ve got since they built the pole – they just want to be left alone.’

She saw the class glance at each other, wondering if this was part of a prank, or for real! Madame tapped her wings together. ‘Is this true, Sooze?’

‘Oh, yes!’ said Sooze.

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