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Stones
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I followed his gaze to the lakeshore. A hundred tiny lights dotted the forest--- more than a hundred. A thousand? They kept appearing among the shadows, different in size and luminance depending on the lantern. I hadn't realized the forest was so full of Folk. And among the trees, the silver faerie stones began to glow.
"All this for a mortal queen?" I muttered, flushed and overwhelmed.
"Too much?" Wendell made a gesture, and the faerie stones dimmed, retaining only a faint luminescence. "That's
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― Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
― Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
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Wendell looked at the faerie stone in his hand, shrugged, and smashed it against the floor.
Out burst a flock of parrots. The birds shrieked and squawked, and the sheerie were momentarily distracted--- not afraid, they lunged at them like cats. Each parrot seemed to be carrying a tropical flower in its beak.
Wendell hurled another stone. When it smashed, glittering banners unfurled upon the museum walls, covered in the faerie script. The ceiling was suddenly painted in frescoes of Folk lounging
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― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
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