Here
on Earth, fairies are very, very elusive and rare. But up in space, where
anything is possible and most everything is unexplored, there is a small
planetoid that is home only to fairies. And one day, one of the more
adventurous of these fairies decided that she wanted to see what other planets
were like. So she had the interplanetary aeronautics department build a
spaceship for her, and she set off on a voyage into space.
An interplanetary voyage from Earth
would take decades or even centuries, but that is because our spaceships are
not powered by the magic of fairies. Spaceships powered by fairy magic can
reach other planets in a very short time, and that is how this fairy voyager
was able to reach Earth in only a matter of days.
To the fairy, Earth looked like a
magnificent blue crystal. She had once visited a cave that contained misty blue
gems of all sizes, and she thought that Earth must be an enormous version of
one of these gems. What a wonderful place
to land! she thought, and she set the ship’s course for a landing on Earth.
But when she landed, she discovered
that it was not blue, but green; the ground she stood on was a vivid,
eyecatching green, and scattered all around were tall structures covered in
different shades of green. But when she looked up, she saw the beautiful misty
blue she had been expecting, and it was just like the crystals in the cave. Those gems must be green inside, just like
this one, she thought. I will have to
break one open and see.
As she walked along, she heard an
odd babbling sound coming from a spot beyond the tall, green structures. She
followed the sound, and found a stream of clear, dazzling liquid rushing
against some grey rocks. It was very boring, compared to the rich red streams
from her homeland. By now she knew that this was not a giant crystal; as far as
she knew, crystals did not have streams in them.
The babbling was not the only
strange sound she heard—there were strange sounds coming from the tall, green
structures as well. “Peep, peep, peep,” went the tall, green structures. Were
the structures themselves making that sound, or was there something inside of
them that was doing it? The fairy approached one of the structures for a closer
look. It was covered in flat, bright green disks that rested on knobby brown
bars. She broke off one of the disks to see if it was making that peeping
sound. The disk felt light and thin in her hand, and it was made out of a very
strange kind of rough paper. She held it to her ear, but no sound came out of
it.
Something was moving under the green
disks. The fairy took a peek, and beheld a tiny flock of feathery little
creatures, twisting their heads and hopping around and peep, peep, peeping.
They were just about the funniest little things the fairy had ever seen, with
their black, beady eyes and their short, skinny legs. She was sure that she
could watch them all day, but she had so much else to see on this strange and
funny planet.
She returned to her ship and set its
course for a voyage around this big, blue gem of a planet, wondering what other
interesting things she would find. And she came to the conclusion that there
could never be a planet as big, beautiful, and interesting as this one.
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