Vidia had no idea where she was. The first thing she saw was a blue flourished light coming from some mushrooms on the ceiling. The next was that she was on a bed made from a big soft mushroom. She sat up with some difficulty and immediately noticed that a blanket made of soft fabric had been laid upon her. She looked at it with confusion as she had never seen anything like it in Pixie Hollow. Her hair fell over her face and she noticed that her hair was loose. However, it was what she noticed after that freaked her out. Her clothing had been replaced! She wore a baggy long sleeved coat with buttons on the front, and nothing else.

A little embarrassed, the fast flier pushed the blanket away to have a view of her legs and cringed when she saw her right one. It was all bandaged up with spider webs and put still with a pair of wooden sticks on each side. She didn't dare to move it.

"Vidia you are awake!" a voice shouted out in joy, making the fast flier scream in terror as she saw a gremlin with violet eyes and red fur begin to come towards her.

"Stay away from me!" Vidia exclaimed.

"Calm down, I don't want to hurt you," the gremlin said getting closer with her hands raised as to mean no harm. Vidia didn't trust her and started to crawl backwards, but stopped as pain flared up her leg.

"Don't move! You are going to injure yourself," She warned as Vidia attempted to move again.

"Look I will just sit over there, but please stay still," The gremlin said as she backed off to a corner of the room and sat down cross legged. "By the way, my name is Mila," she added.

They spend almost an hour looking into each other eyes. Vidia didn't dare to blink as she eyed the gremlin with suspicion. Mila looked as relaxed as ever. It wasn't long before the fast flier began to get very tired. However she would not allow herself to go to asleep.
The gremlin tilted her head to one side, then with a knowing smile she began to sing a soothing melody;

Come Little Children

I'll Take Thee Away, Into A Land

Of Enchantment

"…What are you doing?" Vidia inquired sleepily, rubbing her eyes.

Come Little Children

The Time's Come To Play

Here In My Garden

Of Shadows

The fast flier couldn't keep her eyes open and her head kept dropping, sleep was overcoming her.

Follow Sweet Children

I'll Show Thee The Way

Through All The Pain And

The Sorrows

Vidia fell asleep while still in her sitting position.

Weep Not Poor Children

For Life Is This Way

Murdering Beauty And

Passions

Mila got up and slowly went to the fairy to put her into more comfortable position.

Hush Now Dear Children

It Must Be This Way

Too Weary Of Life And

Deceptions

The gremlin saw the discarded blanket and carefully covered her with it.

Rest Now My Children

For Soon We'll Away

into The Calm And

The Quiet

She checked her temperature and frowned as the fairy still had a bit of fever. She would have her father make some more medicine later just to be safe.

Come Little Children

I'll Take Thee Away, Into A Land

Of Enchantment

Come Little Children

The Time's Come To Play

Here In My Garden

Of Shadows

Mila ended the song and stayed for a few minutes before going out the room, where her father waited patiently.

"Dad, she still has a bit of fever can you make some more medicine?" she asked. The older gremlin raised an eyebrow,

"you know she has to leave as soon as possible, before…" he started but was interrupted.

"I know father, but she can't go anywhere with that leg and we can't go on the surface. Besides I am the one who found her so he can't mark her. He doesn't have the right!" she protested and began to walk away, but stopped when Kurtz warned,

"It doesn't matter if the mark is rightful or not, it's still a mark."

A red haired fairy with childish features in a pink dress sat outside Vidia's door, patiently waiting.

"Prilla please. She's not coming back, she's gone." Fawn tried to reason with the clapping talent fairy but to no avail. Prilla simply couldn't accept the fact that Vidia was gone. The fast flier had always watched her back, and she had always helped her when she asked.

Prilla had always relied on her and just thinking of her gone didn't make any sense. So she waited for her return. Prilla didn't care how long she had to wait, but the others did. They persistantly tried to get her to leave.

Prilla didn't even acknowledge their existence.

The day after

Mila gave Vidia a bowl full of broth and a spoon, but the fast flier just looked at her strangely.
"So what are you waiting for? Eat it up!" Said the gremlin.

Vidia had overheard all type of stories about gremlins from Windbreak. None of them were pleasant, but this one didn't seem evil. Besides if she wanted to hurt her, she could have done so a long time ago.

"…What happened?" she asked. the gremlin smiled.

"I found you half dead weeks ago and took care of you ever since." Mila answered and then paused before adding in a disapproving tone, "You really shouldn't have drank that dirty water, my father said it almost killed you" Vidia peered inside the bowl trying to identify the ingredients with the spoon.

"Don't worry there isn't any wheat in that broth." Mila exclaimed "What? We found out you are allergic to it on the first day" she added when Vidia look at her incredulously.

"Well, that explains a lot." Vidia murmured and ate a spoonful of broth.

Prilla still hadn't moved from her spot and continued to ignore Fawn, Silvermist, Rosetta, Rani and Iridessa's pleads to come back to the home tree, or at the last eat what they brought her.

"Prilla, can you look at me please?" The red haired turned in direction of the new voice and meet the queen worried blue eyes, the other fairies backed off.

"Queen Clarion," she acknowledged her in a tiny voice, Clarion sat next to her and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"Prilla, I know you miss her, but sitting outside her house won't bring her back." The queen said only to anger the young fairy

"SHE IS NOT DEAD!" Prilla protested, raising on her feet

"Then where is she? Do you really think Vidia would miss her pixie dust rations for a month, were she alive?" Clarion tried to make her reason

"…no she is always first in line" the fairy agreed and the queen thought she finally understood

"But that doesn't mean she is dead"

"Prilla, a whole cave fell on her, there is no way she survived" the monarch softly said

"SHE IS ALIVE!" Prilla shouted at the top of her lungs at this Clarion raised herself to her feet

"She was overworking herself, I was warned about it " she started in a sad tone "but I didn't do anything, I chose to wait and we lost her" the queen turned her back to Prilla "I will not make the same mistake, I really hoped we wouldn't come to this"

"…Queen Clarion what are you talking about?" Iridessa asked nervously, noticing a group of scouts armed with axes coming closer

"Scouts, cut down the tree" she declared, the scouts went forward and started to cut to down the sour plum

"No, STOP!" Prilla shouted and tried to tackle a scout to the ground. Rani flew to her and held her back, fearing she could be injured. At the same time the remaining fairies begged the Queen to reconsider, but Clarion didn't listen to them and soon the tree collapsed down the cliff.

Prilla went back to the home tree, but cried for the rest of day.

Vidia choked on her food. Mila rushed to her aid and gave her some light slaps on the back.

"Don't die on me, little one," she exclaimed with a chuckle. Vidia shot her a glare.

"Come on. I am just kidding. There is no need to get all worked up," Mila said and ruffled the fairy's hair, irritating her more.

"Don't ever do that again," the fast flier warned. She really hated it when anyone messed with her hair.

"fine, fine," the gremlin shrugged and ruffled her hair again.

AN: Okay I will explain some thing first: Rani still has her wings because Mother dove's egg never broke, second Kyto and mother dove guard the egg together, or it's more like Mother dove keeps the egg warm while Kyto burns to ash intruders.

I think you all figured out why Vidia stopped going to the Queen banquet.

I thank my beta reader FluffyFluff