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The Black Deer and Charlie Rabbit
‘What are you up to? What have you done?’
‘Nothing, nothing ... I’m lost!’ the mink declared.
Bryony looked it him with suspicion. ‘Then I will have to un-lose you and show you home.’ And he did, much to the amusement of the fairies and elves.
Lunchtime passed, and the afternoon drifted into early evening. It was an anxious time for the fairies as they waited in the enchanted garden for Sophia to appear. She did so, led by the gnomes. She sat on her flowered throne and spoke to them with her usual air of calm. Only Aria noticed that she trembled for a second when she waved the fairies off. They would not return to the garden that night. Instead, they had
