I open the door and is greeted by a girl in a short green dress and blonde hair tied into a bun.
"Hi there, I'm Tinkerbell nice to meet you. you must be the new girl right?"
"Uhm, yeah..."
"Hope I didn't wake you up. Clanke and Bobble asked me to check in on you to see if you needed anything since they couldn't do it themselves. They had to take care of a big mess on the landingstrip, apparently someone had left the basket checkpoint unattended."
"No no, it's fine. I was about to go outside anyway." Wich was true. I had packed my bag with some of the food ready for a long walk as per my usual habits. I had covered myself in a poncho as a protection from getting to many questions. I swing the bag over my shoulder and step outside closing the door behind me.
"Do you know where you are going? Should I come with you and show you around if you'd like."
I tell her that I don't have anywhere in particular in mind and just want to stretch my legs for a bit and that I had gotten a tour yesterday so i knew approximately where most places was, but that I didn't mind her tagging along for company.
I have fun walking along the creek taking note of all the things moving in there, mostly tadpoles and guppies. I'm comfortably silent listening to Tinkerbell as she does most of the talking, telling me about her interest in finding what she called 'lost things' and how I remind her of someone named Zarina since she to have the odd habit of preferring to walk. She also warn me to not wander of to far alone, warning me about hawks and pirates and other things that were considered dangerous around here. I have a hard time getting more than a word or two in between her constant ramblings, (not that I usually were a chatty person), she sure have an ability to speak that were on par with human teenage girls on the phone.
About noon she excuses herself needing to get back to her work before she gets another reprimand from fairy Mary. I tell her it was no problem. I spend the rest of the day wandering around.
I find my way back to my stump before it got to dark. The next following days were spent like that, sometimes my new friends invited me to hang out other times I just entertained myself by observing the specially interesting events caught my eyes, such as plants growing at an alarming speed or the light bending in an unnatural way, noticing that it seemed to follow the will of the fairys performing their respective tasks. It was truly fascinating.
One day me and the other tinker fairys went on a trip to the beach to look for lost things. We found some small knick knacks and I sometimes laughed when they tried to come up with different explanations as to what it was and how to use it.
"Well seems like someone is having fun today" Bobble said to me during one of my laughing fits.
"Sorry, it's just amusing how far off you guys are"
"Oh so little miss Affrey finds it hilarious to mock other people for not being experienced in human culture."
"No, no, no. I wasn't... I didn't mean it like that."
"Well I take great offense that you find it acceptable to mock us so blatantly." He says acting like I had truly hurt his feelings, the others play along. I'm so embarassed thinking I had made everyone angry with me. I try to apologise but nothing I say made them any happier accusing me of making excuses. I'm about to leave when Tinkerbell stops me telling me not to worry about them and that she's eager to hear whatever I know about lost things wondering how I knew so much about them. I see Bobble grabbing his finds and leave wich makes me even more upset. I tell Tinkerbell that I will tell her later and that I need to go.
He had got a good headstart so even when running I can't keep up. Out of breath I make my way into the workshop, figuring it might be a good place to start looking. I can't find him anywhere so I'm ready to give up when I feel a hand on my shoulder. Reacting out of pure instinct I volt out of the grip and grab my weapon (half of a tiny pair of scissors) ready to attack whatever had snuck up on me.
"Whoa! Calm down! I'm your friend remember?"