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Twig was trying to sew a tiny saddle for a field mouse who had gotten a thorn in its paw. His huge, clumsy fingers fumbled with the needle made from a pine spine. The mouse squeaked in pain.

Twig just hummed, a deep, kind note that made the icicles on the shed’s roof tremble and fall away. He wasn’t a misfit. He was a bridge. Too big for the world of pixies, too small for the world of humans, but exactly the right size for the place in between where kindness lives. pixiehuge

“Let me help,” Lily whispered.