A few weeks after the return home, Tinkerberry looked around the yard. She felt something was missing. Suddenly, she realized that the little fairy camp checkpoint that Elsie had been found at was gone! Upon closer inspection, she saw that it had been run over by a lawn mower.
"Oh no!" Tinkerberry cried.
Rachel was outside. Tinkerberry got her attention.
"What is it, Tinkerberry?" asked Rachel.
Tinkerberry found a stick and wrote in the dirt, WE NEED TO MAKE ANOTHER FAIRY CAMP. THE OTHER ONE GOT RUN OVER BY A LAWN MOWER.
"Oh no!" Rachel said. "I think my daddy has a box we can use."
He did have a box. Rachel came back outside, looking very pleased with herself. In her arms was a sizeable brown cardboard box.
Tinkerberry showed Rachel where she wanted it, and then she began checking it out. It was a nice box, able to fit many fairies. It was, however, cold and uninviting. Tinkerberry would change that.
First, Tinkerberry wrote in the dirt, ROCK. Rachel brought a square cement block over.
"That'll work," Tinkerberry said to herself. She pointed to the middle of the box. Rachel set the block there.
Tinkerberry found some leaves. She decided to make a nice carpet. She arranged them on the floor of the box. As she thought about how she would stick them there, she remembered glue.
Glue was amazing to the little tinker. Instead of having to stick things with liquid tree sap, you could squeeze the white, sticky liquid out of a handy bottle. Glue was not as runny as water, but it was runnier than sap, which was useful if you needed to spread it. The best thing was that Rachel had a nearly full bottle of glue.
Tinkerberry grabbed a stick and wrote, GLUE.
Rachel smiled. "You want some glue? Okay!"
Soon, she was back with the glue. Tinkerberry guided the bottle as Rachel squeezed. Then she put the leaves on it.
"Hmm, it needs something to tell fairies that it is a camp," Tinkerberry mused. The box looked very much like human doing. Fairies would not recognize it as a camp.
Suddenly Tinkerberry brightened. She found a stick and wrote PEN in the dirt.
"Okay, I'll get you a pen," Rachel said. She ran inside for a moment, and then came back out with a pen.
Tinkerberry wrote on the box. In slanting, awkward letters, she wrote, FAIRY CAMP. MADE BY TINKERBERRY, THE TINKER FAIRY. The little fairy then returned the pen and glue to Rachel.
Then, Tinkerberry let the glue dry. The little fairy was very satisfied with her work.