Emily remembered the day they met Rasmina. The day had started out sunny and bright. Emily and Carol were discussing their plans for the day. They'd been working on an interactive art project that helps people love and understand nature. Emily and Carol know that part of their jobs as fairies is teaching humans to treat nature better, so that everybody can survive. Without nature, there are no fairies and without fairies, there are no humans.
So they discussed the project and what to work on that day. After lunch, they would stop work and go to Fairy Beach, looking for jellyfish and sea stars. Fairies are light enough to ride on jellyfish without being bothersome, so they never get stung. Sea Stars are usually underwater, but each low tide, many stars stay out on the sand, drying up and apparently dying. They don't actually die; they absorb lost souls, which makes them seem rigid and dead. Once covered up by the incoming tide, stars release the souls to the sea. In the water, the previously-lost souls are guided by ocean life until they resolve their pain and are able to find their way to heaven.
The fairies like to go by the beach to welcome the sea stars, and thank them for the work they do. Getting souls to their proper places is important! And so Emily and Carol were at the beach at 3.15, with no idea of the extent to which their lives would change that afternoon.
The afternoon they met Rasmina.
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