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MR. BUNT OWL

That's exactly what you are, and it isn't very pleasant. In the first place, you can't go back to the little girl who called you her playmate, be

cause Dabs and everybody can see you now and they wouldn't understand.

And second, you

can't go back into the Maple Tree because that

is where the forgotten fairies go. It is only when the children outgrow the fairies and forget them that they can come back. You are not forgot ten -- you are lost. MR. BUNT

Isn't there any place for me to go ? OWL

Considering. There's only one chance, and you'll have to be

quick about it and go before the bridge closes. Over the bridge, down into the world, you will be neither fairy nor child. And there is only

one way back. When you are forgotten. That, or the key. MR. BUNT

The key ! No one ever finds the key ! OWL

Very, very few. MR. BUNT

But I want to stay here.