A sharp breeze whipped through the tall blades of grass as a fast flying fairy flew at her top speed toward Tinkerbell's house. Upon reaching the door she touched-down and brushed the purple dust from her wings, relieving herself of the fast-flying talent she temporarily possessed. Zarina swept a strand of her auburn hair and knocked on the door. After some shuffling inside and and few sounds of metal hitting the ground in a rush the door opened to reveal Tinkerbell, who looked like she had just been working.
"Hey, Zarina!" she said and invited her fairy friend inside.
Zarina stepped in and said, "It good to see you, Tink! How are the preparations coming along?"
"Good, good." the blond answered, "I've only got a few more things to take care of."
The two heard another knock at the door and Tinkerbell went to see who it was. When she opened it a small raven-haired fairy with ivory skin stepped inside the house. Her deep red eyes shown light rubies in the light.
Zarina turned to hurt and asked, "Feign? Is something up?"
The girl's hair fell over one of her eyes and she said, "Um... No... I just... wanted to see how the preparations were coming along..."
"Its coming along just fine, Feign." Tinkerbell said, "Will you be helping Zarina with the dust work tonight?"
The shy fairy nodded and took a seat next to her mentor. Zarina had become quite a hit in Pixie Hollow since her return. Everybody wanted to get to try her special alchemized pixie dust and many of the dust keepers wanted to learn alchemy from her. One fairy in particular was Feign, who had just arrived and didn't actually have a talent. When the young fairy was created not a single item glowed for her. Queen Clarion told her that she didn't have a talent because her path in life was unclear and that she would have one eventually. She watched the other fairies and looked for something she could do, then she met Zarina. Feign helped the alchemist with her work and learned how to do the things she did. Now the ravenette was almost as good as Zarina, but not quite. Unlike Zarina, who knew what she wanted in life and what she was good at, Feign was still confused and lonely.
Zarina and Tinkerbell chatted with each other about the upcoming event: The Blood Moon. A festival was to be held tonight, the night of the Blood Moon, to honor the coming Summer. Tinkerbell had made the majority of the preparations for the festival. Currently she was working on something for the Winter fairies.
"Zarina, could you give me a hand?" the blond asked.
"Sure." Zarina pulled some pale blue pixie dust from her pocket and frosted the small object that resembled a necklace. Surprisingly, the frost didn't melt, but iced over the surface of the stone. The small stone began to resonate cold and made the area around it colder, "There you go. What kind of stone is this?"
"Its from the other side of the island. It looks like a plain stone but it holds whatever magic you put into it. I planned on making a bunch of these so that the Winter fairies can come over here without needing snow." Tinkerbell said, excited for her discovery.
"That's so cool, Tink! If you've got them done I can take them home and frost them for you." Zarina offered.
Tink went to get the necklaces and said, "That's be awesome! Thank you!"
"No problem." Zarina said, taking the necklaces and bidding Tink a farewell. She gestured to Feign, who then followed after her.
Zarina and Feign sat in Zarina's house. While the auburnette frosted the necklaces Feign looked at the assortment of pixie dust Zarina had in jars on her shelf.
"Hey, Zarina..." she wondered.
"Hmm?"
Feign looked at the jars, "There's yellow and blue pixie dust, right? and those are two of the primary colors... Do you think there's red pixie dust?"
"Red...?" Zarina froze. She hesitated before responding, "Um... no! There-There isn't red pixie dust!"
The raven haired girl raised a quizzical eyebrow at her mentor, who seemed uncomfortable all of a sudden, "How do you know that for sure?"
"I just do." Zarina said, stern, "Beside, since blue and yellow dust occurs naturally it would make sense that red would occur naturally too since its a primary color too, and since it doesn't it can't exist."
"But..." Feign began, but Zarina interrupted, "Oh, look! I'm done frosting these necklaces! Can you take them back to Tinkerbell for me?"
Feign nodded and Zarina put the necklaces in a bag for her to carry. She sprinkled purple dust on her wings and headed for Tinkerbell's. When she got there she brushed off her wings and Tink let her in. Feign handed Tink the bag and walked toward the door when a glint caught her eye. She turned to see a red stone that sparkled in the light.
"What's that?" she asked.
"Hmm?" Tink asked and looked where the young fairy's gaze was pointed, "Oh, that's a ruby. You can have it if you'd like."
Feign nodded and picked it up, "Thank you so much!"
Then she took off, headed home for the night.