here flowed from a hollow root. The root connected, underground, all the way back to the main Pixie Dust Tree on the warm side. This was where Periwinkle had arrived when she was born. Tinker Bell smiled. She would have loved to have been with her sister when they both arrived in Never Land.
But most of all, Tinker Bell and Periwinkle couldnât stop talking. There was so much to catch up on. They shared stories of their adventures. Periwinkle wanted to hear all about tinkering. And Tink listened with wide eyes as Periwinkle explained that she was a frost talent. It was her job to frost things throughout the Winter Woods.
Soon they reached Periwinkleâs home. Tink had never seen anything like it. It was a cold but cozy cave nestled high up on the side of a snowy mountain. It even had an ice-crest ledge for a front porch. From the tip of the ledge, Tink could see all the way to the border of winter!
Periwinkle showed Tink her room, and opened a drawer full of lost objects that she had collected. Tinker Bell pulled a paper clip from the treasures.
âYou collect Lost Things, too?â she asked eagerly.
Periwinkle grinned. âI call them Found Things,â she told Tink.
A short while later, the two sisters went ice-skating using skates they had made from the paper clips! Tink wasnât very steady on her feet, but Periwinkle was patient and helped her sister glide across the frozen pond. Later, they tried snowboardingâ¦and wound up landing in a heap among the trees.
When the two fairies grew tired, they sat on a branch to rest. Down below, a snowflake fairy was busy twirling a handful of snow high in the air as if it were a pizza. Then she expertly poked out a pattern in the frosty crystals. Each flake she made floated gently past Tinker Bell and Periwinkle, and no two were alike.
Tinker Bell sighed. This was the best day ever!
In the afternoon, Periwinkle took Tinker Bell to see two of her close friends in the Frost Forest. âThatâs Gliss,â Periwinkle whispered, pointing to a fairy a short distance away. The two sisters didnât want to get caught, so they were hiding behind a snowy branch where the other fairies couldnât see them.
âAnd thatâs Spike,â Periwinkle added.
Just then, Tinker Bell slipped and fell onto a snowdrift below. Periwinkle flew to catch her, and they both wound up sliding right into Glissâs and Spikeâs arms!
âHi,â Periwinkle said, smiling sheepishly at her friends.
When the two sisters had explained everything, Spike and Gliss looked at them in disbelief. âSisters?â Spike asked, her eyebrows raised.
âWell, I think itâs fantastic!â Gliss exclaimed. âYou two look exactly alike! I mean, except for your clothes, and your hair, and Periâs a bit more pale.â She took a deep breath and stood back to examine the two fairies. âBut your noses are very similar!â she said, nodding.
Spike shook her head. âForget their noses. Sheâs a warm fairy in winter!â She pointed at Tink.
âYouâre right!â Gliss agreed. âWe gotta show her around.â She smiled at Tinker Bell. âOh, oh, oh! Letâs take her ice-sliding.â
Periwinkle turned to her sister with a knowing twinkle in her eye. âYou are going to love this,â she said.
Soon, all four fairies were teetering at the top of a high frozen waterfall aboard a toboggan.
âReady, set, slide!â Periwinkle called out.
Tink shrieked in delight as they went racing down the icy hill. She couldnât remember ever having this much fun in her life.
That night, as the stars twinkled overhead, Periwinkle and Tinker Bell sat by a small campfire on the ice crest in front of Periâs home. They chatted quietly in the frosty night air.
âFavorite star?â Tinker Bell asked.
âSecond Starââ Periwinkle started to say.
ââto the Right,â Tink