"Ugh, I'm glad that's over,"
Trina said, stretching her long, lithe legs out in front of her as
she adjusted her wings to better balance atop her mushroom perch.
"I'm going to be walking everywhere for a while after that, I
can tell you."
"And I told you not to carry so
much wood," Belora said, flitting through the air above her.
"Pixie dust only goes so far. I told you that you'd strain
yourself!"
"Well, you were right," Trina
said. "Is th

The preparations for the pixies' picnic
were in full swing. Fire pits had been dug for the roasting of
various fruits, nuts, and the savory mushrooms that had been gathered
from all the choicest spots in the forest. A pair of long tables were
brought out into the clearing, and those dishes that couldn't be
prepared on site, like baked goods that required an oven, were being
carried down from the village.
Melia, the apprentice baker, had her
hands full of such delights. She couldn't fly with more

The sky was still more gray and pink
than blue when Skanda set out from the village hoping for an
early-morning dip. By the time the sun was well and truly up, so
would the rest of the pixies, and on a nice spring day the pond would
be a popular destination. Skanda didn't mind company, but she
preferred a bit of privacy when she bathed.
The elders' injunction against flying
away from the village alone hardly seemed to apply to the pond which
was practically a part of the village. There was anot

Two pixies buzzed through the forest,
enjoying the green-tinged afternoon sunlight that filtered down
through the canopy above. Fili, a slender blue-haired pixie wearing a
dress of leaves with an opening in the back to accommodate her
gossamer wings, kept a straight course. Her friend Lera, a buxom
little redhead who wore a halter made form a pair of acorn caps and a
skirt of drying grass, was more rambunctious and preferred a looping
path that flitted around tree trunks and kept her literally f