Having been calmed down by Crispin, Terence had sat quietely with his head slumped down onto his arms, feeling miserably hopeless. He had a big issue to resolve before days end and he had no leads at all, nowhere to even begin looking. He could find no glaring error or oversight in his records. He had been meticulous with it, obsessive even and, while he was loathed to admit it, the only way he could account for those missing smidges was someone taking them.

Terence hated the thought of suspecting one of his colleagues, he thought he could trust all of them and it actually brought him shame to even contemplate one of them endangering the entire season of autumn by making off with three smidges of pixie dust.

Forlornly Terence just sat there, feeling utterly defeated until he suddenly became aware of the two fairies before him conversing over the situation.
"Wait..." he muttered uncertainly, raising his head up and glancing hopefully at Ingrid and Crispin "You guys are gonna help me?" 
Terence's drooping wings suddenly perked back up, fluttering a little as his frown was replaced with a smile as he dared to hope that, with a little help, he may be able to discover the identity of the thief and recover the lost pixie dust after all.
"Of course you can tag along, Ingrid!" Terence said with a chuckle as he used his wings to flitter up into a standing position "Both of you can, I'm gonna need all the help I can get on this."

Picking up his discarded clipboard and dusting it off on his pants, Terence tapped his chin with it as he considered the questions of the fairies.
"Look, guys, I've got no idea who would take the pixie dust. I mean, who would risk the coming of fall like that? I don't wanna ask anyone at the pixie dust factory...I guess everyone there is a suspect now so..." Terence's wings drooped once more at the thought of one of his colleagues being the culprit, he considered the entire factory to be his friends "Oh! But hey, what about Iona! I dunno, she...knows stuff, right? I've got some pretty good advice from her before. Let's try and find her!"

This was excellent, things were already falling into place! With this new idea in mind, Terence fluttered up and took off over the nearby forest of tall grass.
"Come on, you guys!" he called back at Ingrid and Crispin, waving his hand in a beckoning motion as he disappeared among the foliage.