Through the dark forest by Jana Christy & Kiki Thorpe

Author:Jana Christy & Kiki Thorpe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2018-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

They came out of the cave. “How far up do you think the Great Ones live?” Lainey asked, peering up at the treetops.

“Who knows?” said Kate. “But it might be far. We’ll need more fairy dust.”

Kate untied the cloth sack that was hanging from her belt loop. The dust-talent fairies had given them extra fairy dust to take on their search for Tink.

At the time, it had seemed like more than enough. But now, looking at the shimmering dust, Mia thought it didn’t seem like much at all. Who knew how long it would have to last them?

Kate gave each girl a pinch of the fairy dust. Then she knelt to dole out pinches to the fairies, too.

As she stood to retie the sack to her belt, she tripped over a tree root. She fell against a tree trunk, hitting her head hard.

The girls and fairies rushed to her. “Kate, are you okay?” Mia asked.

“Yeah.” Kate tried to rise. But she wobbled and sat down abruptly.

“That does it,” Rosetta said. “You can’t fly in that condition.”

Kate leaned against the trunk. Her face looked pale. “But we have to go see the Great Ones,” she said faintly.

Lainey turned to Mia and Gabby with a worried look. “Someone else will come with me, right?”

“I will!” Gabby said.

“No. You stay here and take care of Kate. I’ll go.” The last thing Mia wanted to do was go find the Great Ones. But after Kate, she was the oldest. She couldn’t send her little sister and Lainey off alone.

“You’re sure you’ll be okay, Mia?” Kate asked as they prepared to leave.

Mia could only nod. She wasn’t sure at all. Without Kate, how would she know what to do?

“Be Never fairies at their best,” Iridessa told them. It was something fairies said to one another when parting for an important journey. Even though she wasn’t really a fairy, the words had a reassuring ring for Mia.

Be like a fairy at her best, Mia told herself.

They rose into the air.

At first the branches were sparse. But as they flew higher, the canopy became dense. Mia passed a long line of ants carrying bits of leaves on one branch. On another, she saw clusters of tiny white flowers growing. The branch had its own little garden!

“More mushrooms,” Rosetta remarked, examining a large one growing nearby. “This forest is full of them.”

“Look at this!” Lainey called. She was hovering next to an enormous nest.

The others flew over for a closer look. The nest was made of sticks and twigs, and was as big around as a bathtub. Mia tried to imagine the bird that would need a nest that big.

“What could have made it?” Rosetta asked.

“I’m not sure,” Lainey said, examining the nest with interest. She liked anything to do with animals. “But see how old and dry the sticks are? Whatever made it hasn’t been here for a while.”

“Well, that’s a relief,” Mia said.

They continued upward. “I was wondering,” Lainey said as they flew, “what do the

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