The fairy Hadar, is on her way to Europe.

She was recently appointed to a new post by the «fairies interdisciplinary high committee».

She has been working as a teacher at the African branch of the C-H-M-P-D-F-T «centre of high magic practice for faulty fairy tales» for a long time.

Today only a few purists amongst the fairies are still refereeing to this higher education center under this label of origin. You will most commonly hear of the name: «broken fairy tales workshop» B-F-T-W . It is lighter and more accessible. Isn't it?

However, if it wasn't for the sake of the fairies community, fairy Hadar would have preferred to stay around a few millions years more. With time, she got accustomed to the noisy cities, scattered villages,never ending movies and dried out dunes... She felt at ease with local practitioners who even taught her the very specific art of manipulating cories shells. She got fascinated by the batik making as well, to the point that she had all her fairy costumes re-designed with African patterns using this ancient method of dyeing.

The other raison which made her feel reluctant to leave the place is a different approach of magic which prevails in Europe compared to what she is used to.

There is two major schools of thought within the fairies world. One mainly theoretical (also called «Ecole Française),very active in Europe, and an other one, more empirical, practical, well settled in the rest of the fairy world. Fairy Hadar belongs to the second one. On the top of it, she has learned in Africa ways to add an intuitive touch to her magic formula. How will her new colleagues receive her practice?

This morning she was notified her relocation, she did not dare talking to the fairy commitee about her concerns. Therefore, until the very moment of her departure, she remains a bit worried about her futur social intégration amongst fairies.

As a matter of fact the Europeen section have a reputation for being excessively bureaucratic and to her point of vew, a bit boring. Fairies practicing over Europe are known for recording everything in files. In the fairies's circles they are called «asterisk fairies». Hadar knows she'll find it hard to carry out magic practice in this working conditions.

The fairy committee probably wanted to challenge her by breaking her routine. Routine and total comfort are the fairies enemies since they lessen their magic insight.

A fairy has to be alert, and never forget that she is coming from an other world. When a fairy starts to look and to react like most of the people around her (fairy or not!), she is supposed to fly away. Somebody else will carry the job out, with as much joy and application...

The committee generally aims to create emulation and conditions for transferring competences from fairies to fairies.

No matter what, it would never have crossed Faity Hadar's mind to argue the committee's decision: marching order by hand, here she flies to Europe.

Over there, she will learn different styles of magic formula that she will store in her colourful musical and invisible cories box rather than a in a C-H-M-P-D-F-T file.

A "cory fairy" is joining the "asterisk fairies"!!!

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