Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, Vol. 7: The Silver Sugar Master and the Yellow Garland by Miri Mikawa and Aki

Author:Miri Mikawa and Aki
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On

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Lulu showed the crafters to one of the small brick buildings near where their carriage had stopped.

The snow came up to about their knees here, but it was solid enough to walk on. Fresh snow had fallen on top of the old, frozen snow, so they were still buried up to their ankles, but they forged ahead, kicking it up as they went.

In the bright glare, their breaths came out white.

Fairies didn’t feel the cold, and Lulu was wearing a thin dress that made Anne shiver just looking at it. She was hardly tripped up by the snow at all, possibly because fairies weighed about half as much as humans. Compared to Anne, who was trudging along clumsily with a great deal of effort, Lulu cut an elegant figure as she floated along in her thin white dress. The wing at her back was nearly colorless and looked faintly golden as the sun’s rays passed through it.

Challe was with Salim, following Anne and the others.

When they reached the building, Lulu gave an order to Hugh.

“Open the door.”

Using one of the keys on the key ring at his hip, Hugh undid the lock set in the wooden door.

He opened the door. There was no sunshine inside, and it was cold and smelled of earth. A large number of barrels stood in rows on the stone-paved floor.

“All right, go in. Open the lid of a barrel and take a look.”

At Lulu’s insistence, the candy crafters stepped into the hut. She offered them no explanation as to what was inside the barrels.

Anne doubted that there would be anything terrible inside, but still, she opened the lid with hesitation. Inside was a liquid. It was a deep-blue color, dark enough to almost be indigo.

A short distance away, Keith opened the lid of a different barrel, but inside this one was a liquid that was such a deep red it almost looked black. The liquid inside the barrel that Elliott opened on the other side of Keith was such a deep yellow it almost looked brown. Stella’s barrel contained red. Killean’s was blue. Each of the barrels they had opened was filled with colored liquid.

The crafters looked at Lulu in confusion.

“What is this, Lulu?” Killean asked.

The fairy stepped into the building and stopped next to Anne.

“You know the flowers that signal the arrival of spring?”

The flowers in question were dainty, charming flowering bushes with thin petals and slender stalks that grew in clusters across the fields in the springtime.

They were delicate flowers, but their petals came in vivid shades of red, yellow, and blue, and when the fields were filled with these colors, the common people knew that spring had come.

“This is what you get when you collect petals of those flowers and boil them down. Right after a harvest is finished, you apply this liquid at the bases of sugar apple trees. You keep applying it for the whole year, throughout winter, spring, and summer. I’ve heard that this work is done

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