Ada was very happy living with Lila. Every day, Lila poured pixie dust onto her, and then Lila would go somewhere where Ada could practice her talent. But there came a day when Lila only had two bags of pixie dust left. She said nothing to Ada, but she wondered how she would get more. Since there wasn't anywhere she knew of where the fairies delivering summer had their camp, once they ran out of dust, Ada would be unable to fly.
"Ada, I'm going out for a bit," Lila said. "Stay here. I'll be back soon."
Ada nodded and waved to Lila as she left her room.
Lila pulled on her shoes fast and ran out the door. She was going to look for fairies again, but with a different intention then she had before. She knew to be quiet, and she sneaked on her tiptoes to every tree she could see. She didn't find any sign of fairies until she was walking back home. Then, she saw a fairy in the grass, oblivious to her presence.
Lila grabbed the fairy and held the fairy up to her face. "I won't hurt you," she said. "Just tell me where the fairy camp is."
The fairy, a female with blonde hair, shook her head. Lila heard jingle bell sounds.
"You have to tell me," Lila said fiercely. "Or else I'll put you in a cage." She didn't really have a cage, but the fairy wouldn't know that.
The fairy opened her mouth, and spoke jingling sounds. Lila shook her head. "Show me. I can't understand you."
The fairy pointed in a direction away from Lila's house. Lila, still holding the fairy, walked that way. The fairy tried to get out.
"I'll let you go when we get there," Lila said. "I can't know if you're tricking me or not."
The fairy shook her head. Lila walked the direction that the fairy had pointed until they came to an old, dead tree Lila had never seen before. She tried to climb it with the fairy in her hand, but only succeeded in falling down. The fairy's face had been scratched by the rough bark, and she tried harder to get out of Lila's hand. Lila held her tightly and finally succeeded in climbing the tree. She looked in and saw a big group of fairies. Lila smiled. The fairy hadn't lied. She let go of the fairy, then looked around at the camp. She saw a huge pile of leaf bags. There must have been at least three hundred! Lila smiled and reached towards them.
Fairies looked up, and their faces filled with terror. They all flew away as fast as they could, and Lila could hear a loud jingling sound. It was as if there were a million jingle bells ringing all at once. Lila grabbed all the leaf bags and shoved them into her deep pants pockets. Then she looked around. The once-full camp was deserted now. Not even one fairy was there. They had left in such a panic that they hadn't taken anything along.
Lila poked around to look at all the things the fairies had left. There were lots of things that were interesting to her, but the thing that caught her eye most was an assortment of acorn pots. She scooped them up and put them in her pocket, then carefully climbed out of the tree.
Lila ran home and went into her house. Then she raced to her room. She was glad to see that Ada was right where she had left her. Lila opened a leaf bag and was glad to see that it was, in fact, pixie dust. She placed them all inside her closet next to the two bags she had left. Then she closed the closet and told Ada, "I got something for you!"