At nine o clock pm, a little giggle was heard from across the stary night sky. It drifted through on a dandelion seed from the mainland until it was finally visible to all the fairies. Vidia waited and then used her wind to guide it with a gentle breeze to the pixie dust tree. Every fairy went to their section with the other members of their guild, each one crossing their fingers that this new fairy or sparrowman would be part of their guild. All eyes were locked on the laugh while terrence poured pixie dust on it. It turned into a little fairy with long acorn brown hair, a very light tan skin tone, and dark brown eyes. The little fairy peeked around and said " Hi" and everyone said "Hello" back.
A few seconds later Queen Clarion arrived through a trail of gold, shimmering pixie dust along with the ministers of Autum, Summer, and Spring, and Lord Malorie. She flew towards the new girl and said her usual greeting " Born of laughter, clothed in cheer, happiness has brought you here. Welcome to Pixie Hollow". The little fairy gave a smile and said " Thank you your highness". The motherly queen asked her if she had a nice flight. She replied " Pretty good, got a little bumpy but other than that all went well" Clarion gave a warm smile and said " Now let's see about these wings. Please stand up." When the fairy stood up, pixie hollow seemed to go silent. This fairy was incomplete, but in a way that they had never seen. Fairies are typically six inches tall, but this fairy was even tinier. She was three inches tall. When she saw one of the dust keepers stand, she could see she was different. Clarion intened to tell the fairy, but she wanted to do it in private. She could tell just by looking at her she was aware she was different. Clarion broke the long silence and said. Let's see what your talent is. She made the stands appear and every guild placed their symbol of their talent on one.
She explained what they were for and the fairy got right to it. After trying many, the egg, which represented animal fairy glowed bright in her hands. She was an animal fairy. The queen stepped foward and said " come foward and meet your new member" Then she gave the new fairy a name. Phoebe. However, the queen could see that Phoebe knew she was differet. So she asked her to stay behind. It was clear to Phoebe that she was tinier, but Clarion knew why and wanted to make sure she knew too.
Once they sat down in her chambers, they got some tea and Clarion began to speak. " Phoebe" "Yes you're majesty" "I'm guessing that you are aware that you are a little different." Phoebe nodded her head up and down slowly. " I figure I'm incomplete because everyone is so much bigger than me." The queen got closer and said " Yes, but you are incomplete, but in an extrememly rare way. Don't worry it's not going to kill you but I still want you to know what it is. There has been one sparrow man with the same incompleteness as you, and that was four hundred years ago, in fact I was only in training to become queen. " Phoebe asked to be told and Clarion explained she was what they called a half fairy. Since she was only three inches and other fairies were six inches, that was how it got the name. Phoebe replied " Well I must admit it does feel a little strange, but I also think it's kind of cool." " I'm glad to hear that, but there is one thing you must remember". From now on you are to use a pixie dust formula called speck dust. It has the same power of pixie dust, but it has the proper strength for a half fairy. The other kind would make you fly uncontrolably. I actually gave some to fairy gary and he is aware of this and so are the other dust keepers." Phoebe nodded and said " I will remember, thank you" The queen smiled and said " I'm so happy you are here" and then watched the new fairy fly off.