Fairy Dust by Gwyneth Rees

Author:Gwyneth Rees [Rees, Gwyneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780330470810
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books

It was after nine o’clock when Rosie woke up the following morning, and her mother was already downstairs in the kitchen making breakfast. By the smell of it, she was cooking bacon, which must mean she was in a good mood. Her mother hardly ever bothered to make a cooked breakfast for them.

After Rosie had finished her bacon roll and got herself washed and dressed, she pottered about in her room for a while, tidying up and trying not to think about Snowdrop. At eleven o’clock she went downstairs and told her mother she was going for a walk up on the moor.

‘I’ll come with you, if you like,’ her mum offered. ‘Keep you company.’

But for once, that wasn’t what Rosie wanted. ‘It’s OK, Mum. I’d rather go by myself,’ she said.

Her mother looked surprised and a little hurt but there was nothing Rosie could do about that. She had to make contact with the white dove – and she couldn’t do that if her mum was around.

She walked up on to the moor and kept heading towards the forest, not really sure what she was going to do when she got there. When she reached the tree trunk where she had left the chocolate the day before, she sat down on it to wait. It was only half past eleven. Soon, she started to get a funny feeling inside, as if something magical was about to happen. Maybe the tree trunk would open up like a trapdoor, to reveal a secret passage or something, that would lead her into the centre of the forest. She tapped on top of the wood three times but nothing happened. She moved to sit on the ground so she could rest her back against the stump. The sun was very bright now and it hurt her eyes every time she stared up at the sky for any sign of a white bird. She closed her eyes for a while, beginning to feel sleepy as the heat got to her, then, as she opened her eyes to check her watch, she noticed a bird in the sky overhead. As it came closer, she saw that it was a white dove. Rosie stood up as it flew over her. It was carrying a small, white bundle in its beak, soaring high above the trees, heading towards the centre of the forest.

Rosie felt excited. She left the tree stump and began to walk among the trees. The further in she walked, the darker it became. She called out, ‘Hello,’ a few times, feeling sure that the centre of the forest must be where the fairies lived, but all she heard was her own voice sounding spooky as it echoed back to her. The trees got closer and closer together and soon she couldn’t tell which way she was walking any more. All she could make out when she looked up at the forest roof was blackness. It was dark underfoot as well and when she tripped up on a massive tree root, she decided to turn back.

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