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Published:
2026-01-09
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2026-05-23
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The Minister of Winter

Summary:

It has been nearly a century since Queen Clarion decided to keep the Winter and other Seasonal fairies separate. Until one day a winter fairy is born in Summer. After her birth, everything is thrown into question. Fairies continue to be born in the wrong seasons more frequently. Yet, the winter fairies born into the other seasons somehow seem to have more durable wings than those who are born in Winter.
Through time and much debate a new role is decided on, and one day Queen Clarion approaches Lord Milori and Snowflake at the border, offering up a position for Snowflake as the new and illustrious Minister of Winter. Her job is to employ the winter fairies as attendants for more birthing rituals, allow for more warm fairy to use their talents towards winter politics, and serve her role as ambassador to relay messages and rules from Queen Clarion to Milori and the Winter Lands. But is her new position as minister of winter the answer to the fairies' wishes in winter to be closer to their warm fairy counterparts? Or is the rift between the two too deep to do anything about?
What will the role of Minister mean or entail? Is the role a shot towards a new tomorrow or simply a bleak future in disguise?

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Chapter 1: Prologue:

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Have you ever wondered where a dandelion seed ends up on a summer day? Where the scraps of that broken kite went when you were a child and loved to play? Some end up strewn about. Some simply become worn out. Others however, when a child laughs, travel a very special route.
A laugh can attach itself to an item, and few children understand. The sheer wonder that comes simply from a birth in Neverland. Something like a simple laugh or belief can sustain so much. For the birth and life of a fairy occurs from that joy and such.
But our story is not about many, for it is only about one. An important figure that, sadly, is remembered by little to none.
But on that magical evening, on that snowy winters night. In 1795, a small family sits ‘round the firelight. The baby laughs, and wool from a craft takes flight and travels on. And so it goes, on through the thoes of the storm, ‘till she wakes up and yawns.