284. The Leafies Have Something to Say

284. The Leafies Have Something to Say

We, the Leafies, who publish Heather’s Moonly Letters to her brother Arley, said we would explain what the Fay Moon Calendar is. And we keep our promises, so we will do that now.

The Fay Lunar calendar has exactly the same months as the Gregorian Calendar mortals employ. But the moon, when it appears in the Apple Island sky, does not behave exactly like it does where mortals can observe it. To begin with, there is no month without a full moon in our night sky. Mortals may miss out on a moon, almost always during one or another February, but that doesn’t happen in Apple Island. What does happen in Apple Island is that the day there is a full moon, and when it is at its  exact fullest,  that moon changes colour for exactly sixty seconds. Now you see it, now you don’t. It turns a different colour for a minute every month. And if there are two moons in a month, which can happen, that moon goes true blue, as blue as any blue moon should be and isn’t in the mortal world. Below is a chart that shows the colours our full moons have for a minute each month.  

Next, a word about Predictit Pond, which is where we get to read Heather’s letters before they are written. To get to Predictit Pond you first have to find Predictit Well. It isn’t always in the same spot, but it is always meandering around the heart of Minced Forest. Never right on the heart though. 

Most people have no idea what this well is about. Some cast coins into it and make a wish. It doesn’t grant wishes to our knowledge, so if it seems it has, that must be a coincidence. However, if the coin you cast into it is a coin with the head of a donkey on the heads side of it and the date June 21, 1595 on the tails side, the well seems to grow wider and invites you to jump into it. Should you do this,  you will sink till you reach a small grassy, green  field with a light green pond in it.

 This is Predictit Pond. If you look into the pond thinking of what you would like to see in it, you might see just that. The vision won’t last long, but almost always it will stick to your brain and live in your memory for as long as you need it there. How to get out of the well when you are done having visions? That happens by itself. You suddenly find the well has cast you out of it, back into the forest. And you won’t be a drop wet.

Another question we would like to answer here is just what Beaurenard Leonado Flynn’s imaginary brother Radley looks like. Everyone has been asking. Well, that is everyone who hasn’t had the chance to see him in person. Michael O’Toora has been kind enough to draw a sketch of Radley for us so we could show him to you here. You will observe that stangely, this hare fairy looks tougher than delicate Beaurenard, for all Beaurenard is a fox fairy and should look more dangerous. Perhaps it is the penetrating golden eyes. Or the whiskers.

 

Radley  also tends to wear absurd – in our opinion- shirts and sweaters with patterns one usually finds decorating Easter eggs. But we suppose he has his reasons for wearing them, and in any case de gustibus non est disputandum. 

If you have doubts about anything else, or need more information about these subjects, feel free to write to us Leafies. To just leave a comment will do.