Chapter 8:
She stopped first, not in her room, but in the airbags, the envelope where the Angels built their town from the Dewar Stone and lived out their lives. She floated in the space, her mouth agape. For the first time she could see the Fairies without the need of Rosa’s goggles and working in their natural form. When they ventured out from the ship’s shell, they increased their size and looked roughly human-sized but with wings. Now in their natural habitat, they were tiny, no larger than her little finger. She would call them delicate.
Then she remembered how they had no problem picking up the attackers and dropping them to their deaths in Placerville, when they first met. She knew, despite their small stature, the Creatures would not hesitate to kill in order to protect their hom
