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The pixie hovered in the air fluttering on her delicate wings. She frowned at the large figure sitting in front of her.
"You�re not a real fairy!" accused the tiny pixie. "I am too," said Joan. "You are not," insisted the pixie for the fifteenth time. Joan looked around her classroom high within the hollow redwood tree. Everyone was staring at her and all of her classmates were smaller than she was. The elves only came up to her elbow. The brownies, gnomes, leprechauns, and dwarves were only as tall as her waist. The pixies who swooped and fluttered around the classroom were scarcely the length of her biggest finger. "You don�t look like a fairy," said the dwarf named Brodin Iron Hammer. "You don�t dress like a fairy," said the elf, Morning Breeze, as she adjusted the garland of flowers over her long golden hair. "And you don�t even have a fairy�s proper name," said the pixie, Smiles at Dawn. She landed on top of Joan�s desk and folded her arms across her chest. "Joan - what kind of a name is Joan?" The pixie shrieked with laughter. She clutched her belly, fell to the surface of the desk, and rolled over and over whooping with merriment. The other fairies chuckled and shook their heads. Joan looked at the smirking faces around her. The pixie wasn�t being fair. Smiles at Dawn knew that �Joan� was just her nickname. Her real name was Twinkle Toes Dance By the Moonlight On a Mid-Summer Night�s Dream - but nearly everyone called her "Joan," because "Joan" was a lot easier to say than her real name. After all, if you were having lunch with Joan, wouldn�t it be easier to say, "Joan, could you please pass the salt?" instead of saying, "Twinkle Toes Dance By the Moonlight On a Mid-Summer Night�s Dream, could you please pass the salt?" By the time you worked your way through her name, you probably wouldn�t remember what you wanted anyway. It was far easier to just call her Joan and everybody who knew her called her Joan Dream. Joan was also no ordinary fairy. |
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