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said.
    “Pleased to meet you,
Kristina,” Looper said in a muted voice, his mouth so full of cake.
    Clover didn’t respond
but only focused on trying to eat without getting chocolate frosting all over
her hands and mouth.
    The fairies ate only
about a quarter of the slice of cake, and when they were done, they flew back
to the window ledge. There was a crack in the wood that had some dew in it, and
they dipped their tiny hands in it to wash the chocolate off. Once cleaned,
Looper stretched his arms in the air and yawned. “I sure could go for a nap
right about now.” He sat down, leaned against the windowpane, and closed his
eyes.     
    Clover grabbed her
brother by his arm. “There’s no time for lazing around. We’ve got to get the
human child to the Indra River before nightfall,” she said sternly.
    Looper jumped up
suddenly and shook his head to get his wits back. “Well come on, Kristina,
let’s get going,” he said.
    Kristina crossed her
arms across her chest. “What do you mean; take me to the Indra River?” she
said.
    “We must get you and
the Warble to the Indra River before nightfall, because Queen Sentiz will be
sending out her wicked zelbocks to find you. They’re probably in the forest
right now, and believe me; they’d love to capture you for the queen. So the
sooner we get you on your way, the better chance you have of not getting
caught,” Looper said.
    “Hey, hold on a minute!
This all sounds too weird. I’m not sure I’m cut out for all this adventure
stuff. Is it possible to just zap me back to my world?”
    The fairies looked at
each other as if Kristina was crazy, and then, in unison, said, “No!”
    “Actually, the only way
you can go home, is you must first place the Warble in its resting place,”
Looper said.
    “Kristina, go and get
the Warble. We can’t waste any more time,” Clover said impatiently.
    “It’s right here in my
pocket.” Kristina pulled it out and held it on the palm of her hand. “Wow, how
cool! Its color is different again. This time it changed from light purple to
dark purple!”
    “It won’t be so ‘cool’
if we don’t get a move on,” Clover said.
    “Okay, okay, I’ll go!”
Kristina said. Then she pushed up the window and crawled through it, following
the fairies.

 
 
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    Clover and Looper were suspended in
midair as they waited for Kristina to crawl through the window. Their wings
were fluttering so fast that if anyone were to glance quickly at them, they
might be mistaken for hummingbirds.
    As soon as Kristina
landed on the soft, green grass, Looper pointed to a trail leading to the
forest.      “Let’s head that way,” he said and made a few loops in the air and
began heading toward the trail.
    “Wait a minute! I
haven’t had a chance to thank Rumalock or even say good bye to him,” Kristina
said.
    “It’s okay. He had to
leave very early this morning to gather fairy blossoms,” Looper replied.
“Besides, he didn’t want to wake you, knowing you had such a long journey ahead
of you.”
    “Speaking of Rumalock,
he had mentioned that the fairy blossoms are rare and hard to come by. I would
think that they grow like weeds in a lush forest like this,” Kristina said
while following the fairies.
    “They used to grow like
weeds, but ever since Queen Sentiz had her zelbocks destroy most of the healing
herb, it’s now very hard to come by. She has had her zelbocks plant thorn
bushes in their place; even so, there are still small amounts of the fairy
blossom growing on the lower mountain regions. The problem is, not too many of
the dwarfs or gnomes can travel that far, especially the old ones,” Looper
said.
    “But why would the
queen want to destroy the blossoms?” Kristina asked.
    “She hates the dwarfs,
gnomes and almost every other creature that lives in Bernovem,” Clover said.
    “And she has total
control over everything,” Looper added.
    “I don’t get it. How
would she control the dwarfs and gnomes by