Neverland.
Since long before the time of Peter Pan and Hook, before Wendy, John and Michael Darling and the Lost Boys, before the indian tribes appeared or the mermaids swam in from the sea, before even the trees grew or the snow fell upon the frozen peaks, there had been a hidden little nook on the island, a secluded paradise known as Pixie Hollow, the home of the fairies.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
Every child's first laugh since has brought another fairy to Pixie Hollow, a place far removed from the land of humans, where they are rarely glimpsed even by the children with whom they are intrinsically linked.
But still, though they are not seen, they are there, providing the various miracles of nature as they have done since that first child's laugh. They paint the leaves their autumn colors and teach baby birds to fly, they bring the spring's fields of flowers and grow the mighty trees, they bring rain and hail, thunder and lightning, snow and ice, they make the rivers flow, the wind blow and the fire burn. They are responsible for the coming of all seasons and the very balance of nature itself. Rainbows, morning mist, the tides, summer's light and winter's frost, it is all the work of the fairies of Pixie Hollow.
Oh, and Pixie Hollow, what a wonderous place it is.
Teeming with life, energy and activity, Pixie Hollow is the very nerve centre of the entire world's natural order.
At its centre stands the Pixie Dust Tree, cared for by faires of the pixie dust talent, it constantly emits a flow of the wonderous golden dust that allows the fairies to perform their magical feats, as well as grants them the ability to fly.
Pixie Hollow itself is a land in which all four seasons exist simultaneously side by side, divided into quadrants wherein one quarter bears the deep greens, lush foliage and abundrant wildlife of spring, another, the bright light, strong heat and sun loving flowers of summer, another seems perpetually set ablaze by the magnificent reds and oranges of fall while the fourth quadrant is an icey, frozen land and home to the winter fairies.
All fairies have a duty to perform within Pixie Hollow and a special talent to help them on their way.
Some can shape water, guiding the flow of rivers, creating waves and decorating the land with morning dew, others are responsible for the raging wind and crashing lightning of storms that the humans fear and yet stand in awe of, and others still create the often misunderstood element of fire, a potent and wrathful force of nature that never the less, has its place in the great circle of life.
Yes, balance is one of the most integral aspects of the duties that the fairies perform in concert with nature and over the years, under the guidance of their wise ruler, Queen Clarion, they have proven time and again to be up to the task. But the force of nature is a heavy one, constantly in flux, and if the scales were to be tipped even slightly, that balance may before forced irrevocably out of order as nature presses inexorably onwards, waiting for nothing and no one.
It is in Pixie Hollow that our story begins, after ushering in summer on the mainland, the fairies have had two days rest and today is the day that everything winds right back up into full momentum in preparation for the Fall, three months away. What adventures lie in wait for the fairies in the near future? Only time will tell, and it will tell sooner than you may think...
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