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now they gave her many powers powers including a sense of smell that
was greater than a dogs, but they’d also made her target for the
denizens of the “Other World,” such as the fairies, the trolls, and far
worse things; or so she’d been told. So to keep her safe Fletcher had
moved in with her parents to watch over her like a hawk, peeking in on
her while she slept, and telling her over and over again since she’d
been chosen to enter the fairy realm that she wasn’t ready to go
outside just yet, and of course Fern’s parents and older sister agreed
with him. So here she was able to see fairies and magical beings yet
she’d only had a few frightening days when she’d first been possessed
that she’d really been able to experience the other world, to see the
fairies which lived outside. And at the time she’d thought them
to be nothing more than disjointed hallucinations or at times demons.
Now she’d been stuck on a single floor of her house which her parents
had allowed Fletcher to set aside for her, surrounded by dozens of
totems and other magical barriers to keep the spirit world out so that
the only fairy she’d really conversed with were the spirits inside of
her and a grouchy little house fairy who was some ancestral spirit of
Fletcher’s and so kept watch over her while he was away and one or two
other simple little spirits that stayed hidden from her. The spirits of
the trees which now lived in the floorboards had only appeared to her
once or twice and then only for a moment.
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