Bramblepoint Before planet Earth was here, I was riding a light year.

When the questions were asked, she looked from the boy to Towhee, some tension in her stance. She was quick to wash it away, for it would not be right to subject a child to her frustrations.

Smiling after a short moment, she thought of an answer. Fairies took them away, that's what happens when children don't behave. She said with a 'mhm'. More teasing than anything, though avoidant.

It was easier, to simply not speak of what happened at all. It hurt too much to share.

She would wait as long as it took; there was not a doubt in her mind that they would return to her.