Marianne's adventurs of Nidlongdir (old blogs)

Selene and our guinea pig Nico

When I woke up this morning I discovered that I had forgotten to take of the fairy communicator when I went to bed last night. I have to tell you, that wearing the communicator is kind of strange, because your hearing sense and smelling sense is improved dramatically. I can even understand what our pets are saying, and most of the time it's quit annoying to listen to our guinea pig Nico. He is a big male, and he doesn't have a wife or girl friend, which makes him very depressed.  He is begging for food all the time, and he has gained too much weight, so I told him he had to go on a diet. He wouldn't listen to me when I told him that his health was at stake.  I gave him a mirror so that he could see for himself that something had to be done, that of cause didn't help on his depression, so I promised him that if he lost 100g I would try to find him a girlfriend. So Nico started on his diet, but much to my surprise he didn't lose any weight.  

Someone had to be feeding Nico beside me, so I confronted the rest of the family with the fact that Nico has to lose weight, and if I ever caught them feeding him nuts or other kind of guinea pig candy, I would come down on them hard. No one would confess to feeding him, so I just had to wait to catch the mischief.

It hadn't occurred to me until this morning that it wasn't my husband or any of the kids who had been feeding Nico, no it was Selene. I lay there in my bed enjoying the morning sun shining though the top of the apple trees; I could smell fresh made coffee from the kitchen, where I could hear my husband making breakfast, when I heard Nico's voice loud and clearly. He was talking to Selene. Nico told Selene to hurry with the nuts, and he asked her to scratch his back, where he couldn't reach because he is to heavy.  I heard him promise Selene to collect treasures in the house when he was on his daily walk around the house.

I was a bit shame full that I had blamed my family for  feeding Nico, and I went out of bed to have a serious talk with Selene, because obviously she didn't know she wasn't helping Nico by giving him the extra nuts.

Selene is growing much faster than Ebbe at this point; she is like a 5 year old while Ebbe still looks like a baby. He is sleeping most of the time he only wakes up in the middle of the day when the sun stands high on the winter sky.  Remember how I feared that Selene was ill when I first got the twines, well now she  is fare ahead in every way. She is walking and talking, she likes the dark winter sky, and she seems to like all kind of bright color full junk.  I wasn't surprised that she would exchange color full junk for nuts with Nico, so I explained to her how Nico would get ill if she didn't stop feeding him.  Selene looked at me with her big dark eyes, and she nodded her head eagerly to show that she understood how important it is that we all help Nico with his diet. I told Selene that she didn't have to hide her treasures, and that she just has to ask, to get the things she would like to have .

Selene was very excited, but all of a sudden she looked down into the floor, I could see her purple ears get more and more purple. I asked her what's the matter and she looked at me with tears in her eyes. I smiled at her and asked her to tell me what was bothering her so much? She said, can I please ask you a question? I said of cause! Well as I understand it, you are not allowed to steal from other people, she said still looking down. That's right I said. But isn't that what I have been doing collecting my treasures, she asked.  I felt sorry for her, and took her tiny hand. Well perhaps in a way, but you didn't steal any ting out of the house, you just played with them, and that is not stealing, I said. Oh mum she said (for the first time), I gave some of my treasures away. I winkled my eyebrows, in concern. Who did you give the things to? I gave them to the tradeing lady. Who is the tradeing lady, and where did you meet her, I asked. She is the lady that visits me when I go to sleep; she comes in a wagon pulled by a bat.  Is she paying you for the treasures I asked? Yes she pays me with nuts and tree juice, from the apple trees. So that is why she is growing so fast I thought to myself. As you know I have worried about what kind of food I should give the twins. I smiled at Selene, and told her that she could get whatever she needed if she could trade her treasures for tree juice.  I know she needs to get tree juice, but I had no idea how to get it. I had even called a company that sells juice from birch trees, to get food for Selene, but she didn't like it, and her skin turned all green when she had the birch juice, so I went back to feeding her with normal apple juice.

I was quit relieved that we had this talk, and told Selene to run off and play before breakfast.  I went down stairs to collect our mail in the mail box, and much to my surprise I found a new kind of fairy dress hanging on the trunk of the tree right outside my front door. This dress was clearly created from my old junk, I could recognize part of a yellow plastic bag from our local grocer, a net from my oranges, and some wrapping paper from the flower I had from my husband yester day.  

I took the dress with me inside as I could see that it would blow away if it was left there on the tree trunk. I also had a feeling that I was going to need the dress if I let it stay there to blow of in the wind.

The dress was clearly not created by the fairies living in the apple tree; it had to be one of the black nosed fairies who live beneath the earth.

I have been studying the stone map I found, but I still haven't, figured out what to do with it or what it means. I have planned to keep an eye on Selene to try to get in touch with the tradeing fairy; perhaps she can tell me more about the black nosed fairies. I have also decided that Selene should start her flying lessons soon, and I think she will need a bat to teach her how to fly, as her wings looks like the wings of a bat.