The fairies were laying in their beds in the cupboard. Sophie had turned the flashlight off a few minutes ago so the fairies could take a nap.
Suddenly, light streaked in. The fairies looked at the open door. Rachel's giant face was right there!
"Tinkerberry, Mayah, Melon," whispered the human girl. "We're going to go to the Farm today."
Rachel picked the three up. She put Mayah and Melon in one pocket and Tinkerberry in the other. The fairies sat there for a while. They could feel Rachel walking.
A while later, Rachel pulled Tinkerberry out of her pocket. Tinkerberry smiled. They were at the fort!
Rachel pulled Mayah and Melon out too. Tinkerberry led the way into the fort.
"Wow, this is a great place!" Mayah said.
Melon grinned and flew over to a leaf, growing it.
Tinkerberry flew to her bed. The cover had shrunk and was too small, so Tinkerberry pushed it off. The sticks had also fallen over, so Tinkerberry put them back up. Then, the tinker fairy sat on her bed. Melon flew down to sit next to her. Mayah stood by them.
"Aw, poor Mayah," said Rachel. "I'm so sorry about your leg! I really didn't mean to."
"I know," Mayah jingled. "It's okay, I'm used to it."
Rachel said, "Oh yes, please don't go through that fence." She pointed to the chain-link fence.
"Don't listen to her," Tinkerberry said. "There's a fairy camp out there."
Tinkerberry was jingling to the garden fairies when Rachel said, "Oh, Tinkerberry, where did your cover go?"
"It shrunk, so I got rid of it," jingled Tinkerberry.
"Oh, well, you can get a new one, wherever it went," Rachel said. She hadn't understood the fairy.
Tinkerberry wasn't too upset about the girl not understanding her. She flew out of the fort with Rachel following.
Suddenly, Rachel said, "Tinkerberry, fly low!" Tinkerberry did, and Rachel explained, "There are some people not very far away from us."
Tinkerberry hid in a plant growing out of a rock. Hopefully, anyone who saw her would think she was just a leaf.
Rachel looked around, hoping the people would leave soon. She picked up a leaf that was about the right size, she hoped, and showed it to the tinker fairy.
Tinkerberry nodded. The leaf was the right size. The little fairy brushed the leaf off and carried it back down to the fort, flying very low. Once she got back, she put it on her bed and laid underneath it. She was already tired, since she had stayed up the whole night talking with her friends.
A few minutes later, Tinkerberry got up. She had work to do!
"Mayah, Melon," Tinkerberry said, "I found a great spot for your beds!"
She fluttered over to the mossy rock on the concrete wall. Mayah and Melon followed.
"The bottom spot looks great for me!" Mayah said. She laid down, and she liked it. It would have been hard, but the moss growing on it made it soft enough to sleep on.
Melon flew to the top spot. "I like this spot," she said.
Tinkerberry explained her idea to the garden fairies. "I was thinking Mayah could have a little canopy over her bed. I could take sticks and put them on the top part so they would hang over the bottom part, then put leaves across the sticks to make a canopy!"
"Great idea!" Mayah said.
Tinkerberry picked up the two sticks that she had put there two days ago. She set them on the top part so they hung over Mayah. Melon moved to sit on the ground so she wouldn't be in the way.
Tinkerberry flew out of the fort with Rachel following. There were still people out there, so Rachel grabbed the fairy and held her in her hand. Suddenly, one of the people looked over! Rachel dropped Tinkerberry, who hid in the grass. The person finally walked away, and Tinkerberry fluttered back up to her friend.
"I have an idea!" the tinker exclaimed. "I can use grass instead of a leaf for the canopy!"
Rachel obviously didn't understand, so Tinkerberry picked a long blade of grass.
"Oh, you need grass!" Rachel said.
Tinkerberry nodded, then flew close to the ground back to the fort. Rachel followed her back.
"What took so long?" asked Mayah.
"There were humans out there. I had to hide until they left," Tinkerberry explained.
Melon frowned. "I hope you weren't seen."
"I wasn't," said Tinkerberry. "Okay, I'm going to break this blade of grass into pieces and put it on top of the canopy."
She did so, and the sticks fell onto Mayah.
Tinkerberry groaned. She was wondering how to make the sticks stay up. Then she smiled. If she had two y-shaped sticks…
The tinker fairy searched for the right sticks, but she didn't find any. Rachel, who wasn't exactly sure what Tinkerberry was doing, said, "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for."
"Thanks," said the tinker. She finally found a y-shaped stick, but when she flew back to the rock, she found it was too short!
"Darn it!" cried Tinkerberry, kicking the blade of grass. It fell to the muddy ground, and Tinkerberry was knocked off balance and fell off the concrete wall.
Tinkerberry quickly righted herself, but not before she fell into the mud. Her hair, dress, and feet got muddy, but luckily, her wings didn't. She flew back up onto the wall.
"Oh, poor fairy!" Rachel laughed, seeing the muddy Tinkerberry.
"It's alright," Tinkerberry said. "But while I was down there, I got an idea."
Tinkerberry fluttered over to some long sticks that weren't y-shaped. She picked them up and flew back to the rock. Then she flew out of the fort and grabbed another blade of grass. She tied the sticks to the sticks forming the canopy, but the knots came out and it fell onto Mayah again.
"Ouch!" cried the garden fairy.
Tinkerberry groaned. It had failed again! Then she got another idea.
"If the sticks can go behind the rock, then it will hopefully not fall!" Trinity cried.
Tinkerberry grabbed two long sticks that had a piece sticking out from them and placed them over the top part of the rock. The piece sticking out went behind the rock, stopping the sticks from falling. Tinkerberry put the other sticks that were sitting unused on top of the long sticks for the canopy. Then she flew over to a plant that was growing on the ground of the fort and picked a leaf. The leaf was fuzzy. She set it on top of the canopy.
"There! The canopy is done!" she cried.
Mayah grinned. "I like it!"
Tinkerberry flew back over to the plant and picked another leaf. "It's for your covers," she told Mayah.
The leaf was nice and fuzzy, and Mayah laid under it happily. She fell asleep for a little bit.
"Where can I have my bed?" asked Melon. The sticks were over the top part of the rock, and now Melon couldn't sleep there!
"You go look around the fort for a good place, and I'll help you when you find it," Tinkerberry replied. The tinker fairy flew to her bed and laid down, pulling the covers over her.
Melon flew around the fort. No, not the tree. The tree was a bit high. Not the bamboo in the tree, either. She could fall out too easily.
Melon came to the bamboo log sitting on the ground. She grabbed a stick and cleared out the spiderwebs, then walked in. She liked it! It was close to the ground, and a plant grow just outside of it! She laid sideways. Then she laid with her feet by the hole to get in. Finally, she flipped around so her head was just inside of the hole. Perfect.
"Tinkerberry, I'm ready!" Melon called.
Tinkerberry opened her eyes. "Huh?" Then she remembered. "Coming, Melon!"
Trinity flew over to Melon. "Nice place!"
The tinker fairy grabbed two fuzzy leaves, placing one on the floor of the bamboo log. Melon laid down, and Tinkerberry put the other leaf on top of her.
"So cozy!" Melon exclaimed.
After a little while, each fairy flew out of her bed and sat on a branch that was from the tree in the fort. They looked out toward the waterfall. Rachel smiled. Each of the fairies seemed very happy. Tinkerberry was glad her work was complete. Mayah and Melon were happy to be outside with the plants again.
Rachel frowned. It was almost time to go home. She considered something. Then she said, "Fairies, please come!"
Tinkerberry and Melon flew down from the branch and landed in Rachel's hand, sitting down. Mayah landed in the other hand, still standing. Rachel sat on a brick, and the fairies flew over to the bamboo log. Melon and Tinkerberry sat down, while Mayah laid down.
"Fairies, I have a question. Do you want to stay here overnight?" asked Rachel.
All the fairies nodded enthusiastically.
"It might be a few days before I come back," Rachel said. "Is that okay?"
The fairies nodded again, jingling.
"Okay," said Rachel. "I have to go soon."
She gave each fairy a hug and a kiss on the head. "Be safe, fairies."
The fairies nodded.
Rachel waited until each fairy had flown to her bed. "Bye, Mayah. Bye, Tinkerberry. Bye, Melon," she called. She stopped at the doorway and looked back. "Bye," she said, walking out, wondering if this was the right thing to do.
The fairies laid in their beds a little longer, and heard Rachel call, "Are you girls okay?"
"Yes!" they jingled back.
After a little while, the fairies got out of their beds. "This is going to be the best night ever!"
