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MR . BUNT OWL
That's exactly what you are, and it isn't very pleasant. In the first place, you can't go back to the little girl who called you her playmate, be
cause Dabs and everybody can see you now and they wouldn't understand.
And second, you
can't go back into the Maple Tree because that
is where the forgotten fairies go . It is only when the children outgrow the fairies and forget them that they can come back. You are not forgot ten -- you are lost. MR. BUNT
Isn't there any place for me to go ? OWL
Considering . There's only one chance, and you'll have to be
quick about it and go before the bridge closes. Over the bridge, down into the world, you will be neither fairy nor child. And there is only
one way back. When you are forgotten. That, or the key. MR. BUNT
The key ! No one ever finds the key ! OWL
Very, very few . MR. BUNT
But I want to stay here.
