Saving Dariana

“Wow!” Lindy whispered when she started to feel like herself again. “Did you see that?” Bene and Frederick were sleeping peacefully with big smiles on their faces.

“Wow!” she said again because a picnic lunch of berries, nuts, and some strange bread appeared before her. There was a pitcher of what looked like lime Cool-aid. Then grape. Then cherry. Then orange. It was fizzy and bubbly, and Lindy laughed with delight.

“Boy! Everything is always changing colors here.” She grabbed the pitcher and gulped a long swallow. It was sweet and bubbly. The strange soda quenched her thirst and made her heart happy. She could feel the bubbles all the way to her toes, and all the way to her nose. She drank more and more until the pitcher was empty. Her heart felt like it would explode with happiness, and her belly felt like it would explode with bubbles. She opened her mouth and let out the longest, most colorful burp in the history of burps. The sound woke Bene and Frederick who jumped up and danced around in pink, green, and lavender bubbles that floated in a cloud around their picnic spot. Lindy joined the Fairies in a laughing fit that made her side hurt and tears roll down her face. She lay panting and sputtering little bursts of merriment until she felt as loose as a rag doll. Her eyes started to close. She was getting very sleepy.

“Not yet!” hollered Bene. “Look at them yummy nuts.”

Lindy sat up with a start, remembering that she was indeed very hungry. The three had a perfectly lovely picnic lunch and Lindy didn’t even stop to wonder where the food came from. No doubt, the white flowers, which swayed gently in the breeze had somehow made it happen.