Okay, Akari, calm down.Calm down!

  Screw calming down!!!I have wings sprouting out of my back and am apparently small enough to fit inside a flower bud!What am I supposed to do!?Could this possibly be an eborate fairy trick?If I can get through these walls, maybe I can find out what’s going on.

  First, I get this stupid fairy off of me, again!Then I walk over to the white yers surrounding me.Now, if this is a flower petal, these walls shouldn’t be that strong.Pushing against one of them, I feel it give way a little.Right, I got this!

  Shoving against it with both hands, I’m able to shift it, creating a gap I can see through, but there’s another overpping wall behind it.I’ll need to move both of them if I want to see out.So after repositioning myself, I put my whole body into pushing against the wall.It works!I manage to create an opening through both walls rge enough to catch a glimpse outside.

  Through the newly made hole, I see flower buds the size of small rooms atop stems the size of trees.These flowers are at my eye level so I can’t see anything past them, but I can see the ground far below.Then the wall I’m half ying on springs back into its original position, and I get flung to the center of the room!

  “Aaaah!”

  *Poof*Good news, I nded on the bed.Bad news, I’m now covered in yellow dust.Since I can see the fairy’s expression clearly now, I can confidently say this jingling bell is absolutely her ughing at me.Well, let’s see how you like it!I grab a handful of the dust and-*Spsh*-am once again drenched.

  Okay, fine, maybe I’ll give calming down a try!*Sigh*Can I remember anything about what happened st night?The morning events are clear enough, but shortly after when I was spshed with water, my memories begin to cloud.There was the teasing by this fairy, other fairies pretending to be a monster, hundreds of fairies getting ready to throw magic, I think, and then I woke up here.I guess all that magic in one pce is as good a starting point as any for something weird happening to me.The pce I remember was also strange.I’ve never seen anything like it on any of my trips into the woods.

  As this fairy apparently gave me a bath so she could cmp onto me again, I wriggle free once more and take a closer look at myself.My skin is ridiculously smooth.Not a single groove, wrinkle, scar, or blemish that I can see or feel.Once I peer closely enough, it doesn’t even look like skin.Just a completely ft surface that likely has no retion to what people normally have around them.It could be the same as my wings, which simply reformed as soon as that light was shot at me.Speaking of which…

  I’m guessing my wings are made of magic, since when the fairy threw her light at me, they healed and took on the color of her light.My hair is probably the same as well, as most of my hair is now white, but the tips are tinted blue.Thankfully, my skin doesn’t seem to share this trait.Blue in my hair is more than enough.

  I have all my fingers and toes still, although my nails look like I painted them white with dots of blue.That’s actually kind of intriguing as I’ve never been able to afford those types of things myself…

  Okay, forget the distraction, back to discovering myself!Arms and legs are normal.Ack, my breasts seem to be significantly smaller.Not the worst thing in the world, but I was kind of proud of them, and they’ve now mostly vanished.

  Oh!Um.Speaking of vanishing.Apparently fairies don’t reproduce in the same way humans do.Excretion seems to also not be something I’ll have to worry about anymore.A quick gnce at that fairy in her rather revealing outfit confirms it. “Those pces” seem to just be gone!Okay, Akari, now is not the time to freak out!It’s not like I had anything pnned in that regard after yesterday morning anyway.*Sigh*

  Alright, well, what else is now weird about me?Mouth, yep, nose, eyes, ears, uh…I trace my fingers over my ears.They feel longer, almost coming to a point towards the back of my head, but my hearing seems normal.Turning my attention back to my wings, I try reaching out to touch them, but this fairy grabs my hand again.

  “Miep!”

  Guess that can wait.After what happened the st time I touched them, I understand why she doesn’t want me to.And I really need something to call her besides “that fairy”.Alright, temporary name is now Miep.

  For the first time since we became simir sizes, I take a good look at her.She has matching dark blue hair and nails, shimmering deep blue wings, and swirling blue eyes with a few golden sparkles in them.Her skin is nearly the same hue as mine, as well as the same strange smoothness, and she’s wearing some kind of blue flower petals crudely shaped into a dress.If she were human, I’d guess her age to be no higher than twelve.And I still seem to be a few centimeters tal-, uh, a little bit taller than her.Also, since she seems determined to be as close to me as possible, I’m able to detect a subtle scent coming from her.It reminds me of a clear mountain stream or a pure spring.

  But enough of that, time to try getting out of here again.Maybe it’ll be easier getting out through the hole up above than forcing the walls down.Reaching up, I find the lip is higher than I can grab, but maybe I can jump up to it.After again getting Miep off of me, I jump and reach for the edge.And zoom so far through the hole that I miss the edge, and then come tumbling down back inside!Where that tiny bell-like jingle is again waiting for me!

  Right, I’m tiny.Which means, evidently, I’m extremely light.Insects can jump absurd distances, makes sense that now I can too.And, she’s back.

  “Miep, will you just stay off of me!”

  I’m fed up with her and try to sound the part, but my voice is like the smallest bell imaginable, which doesn’t convey my emotions the way I’d prefer.

  “Miep?”

  In response, she just tilts her head at me.Seems pointless trying to talk to her.I get away from her once more, and then attempt the jump again.Carefully, this time.

  The slightest jump carries me higher than I am tall, and I grab the edge to nd safely on it.Once there, I stand and spin in a slow circle.The massive flowers I saw earlier are in every direction, creating a rge field of blossoms.At least as far as I can see, which is only from the top of a flower.Suddenly, Miep flies up from below and tackles me, causing both of us to fall off the edge!

  “Aaaaaaahhh!”

  I scream as the ground rushes closer, but our fall abruptly stops, and I perceive Miep fpping her wings.She holds me between her arms and rapidly begins to climb.With the ground falling away, I scramble to hold onto her, and judging by her broad grin, she's greatly enjoying my panic.From this height, I can see the entire field and the glistening sea of colors is absolutely gorgeous, in stark contrast to the horror of st night.The flowers don’t seem nearly as huge from up here, and I can finally get my bearings, but even from this perspective, they seem extraordinarily rge.Soon, I’m able to spot the st pce I remember standing, the circle of stones.There’s nothing blooming inside the circle, but there is a pile of something on the ground.

  I try to point Miep at it, but this stupid fairy isn’t paying attention at all!She’s off in her own world somewhere, and seems like she’s having the time of her life!Repeatedly waving my hand in front of her face eventually works to get her attention, and I point to the stone circle again.It seems what I want finally dawns on her and she descends to that pce.Once on the ground, I separate from this overly clingy fairy as fast as possible.Although, maybe this is normal for them?Something else quickly takes my attention though, as I now realize what the pile is.

  “My clothes!”

  They’re lying on the ground here, but now seem a hundred times rger than me.My situation finally sinks in.It’s not like I couldn’t understand before, but standing in front of the clothes I wore merely yesterday that now seem to be a hill is really putting things into perspective.