Chapter 38

• Wilder picked at the piece of bread he had been given for breakfast. There was also a bowl of some sort of sweet porridge he observed the other fairies dredging the bread into and eating. He and Fergus sat in the middle of the area, set up for fairies to eat in, watching children and their parents milling around, eating breakfast.
• There were still a few armored fairies that were left behind, watching the entrances and keeping order among the rest of the fairies. Wilder didn’t have any appetite, but forced down a mouthful of bread, then drank some of the sweet nectar the other fairies were drinking. Most of the fairies around him looked like nothing more than humans with wings. There was little variation among them, not to the extremes that Wilder was different.
• Their wing shapes and colors seemed to be the main difference, along with skin tone. Wilder studied the fairies, curious to know more about them, but not about to talk to them. They whispered when they walked by Wilder and Fergus, but none interacted with them beyond offering them food and drink. He wasn’t sure if they feared him or just being polite.