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and relaxed. But she didn’t have time torest! If they wanted to talk to Lemona before the evening stars came out, she and Raina would have to hurry.
    â€œHow can anyone be mean
and
like orange blossoms?” Berry asked Raina. She put her nose close to the beautiful orange flower.
    â€œMmmm,” Raina said. She flew over to Berry and smelled the flower candy. “I know what you mean. Sure as sugar, these do smell sweet.” She thought for a moment and then looked up at Berry. “Maybe Sour Orchard Fairies aren’t as sour as their candy. You know in the Fairy Code Book there is no mention of what the Sour Orchard Fairies are like—just the kind of candy they grow.”
    Berry raised her eyebrows. “Have you ever met a Sour Orchard Fairy?” she asked Raina.
    â€œNo,” Raina said slowly. “I’ve only seen one once, at Candy Castle last year at Candy Fair. She had green wings and a light green dress. I think she brought sour apple suckers to the castle.”
    Berry nodded. She remembered the fair last year, when all the fairies in the valley came to the summer celebration in the Royal Gardens. There were a few Sour Orchard Fairies there, but Berry hadn’t talked to them. “They always look so . . .” She searched for the right word.
    â€œSour?” Raina asked, giggling. “I guess we don’t really know, if we’ve never spoken to them.” She helped Berry pick a few more blossoms from the tree. “Maybe we’ll find out that Lemona is really a sweet fairy.”
    Berry put a bunch of the fragrant blossomsin her basket. “Or maybe the Fairy Code Book suggests taking the blossoms to make sure the fairies don’t get sour when a visitor comes.” Her wings shook as she imagined having to face a sour fairy.
    â€œOh, Berry, your dress!” Raina cried.
    Looking down, Berry saw orange stains on her new dress. “Oh, it’s just as well,” she said. “This dress wasn’t really working for me anyway.”
    â€œWait, did you just hear something rustling over there?” Raina asked, pointing to the ground. She squinted in the dark. “I don’t like being here after Sun Dip.”
    â€œThat must have been the wind,” Berry told her. She flew down to the ground and looked around the trunk of the tree. “No one’s here.”
    â€œThen where is that light coming from?” Raina asked, quivering. There was an eerie green glow getting closer and closer to the orange tree.
    Berry turned around. Out of the darkness a fairy appeared.
    â€œAaaaah!” Berry and Raina screamed. “Sorry,” Fruli answered. “I didn’t mean to scare you.” She pointed her glowing peppermint candy at the ground. “I didn’t think anyone would be here now,” she said very softly.
    Raina gasped. “Oh, Fruli!” she exclaimed. “You scared the sugar out of me!” Her hand flew to her chest. Her heart was beating so fast she could hardly breathe. “What are you doing here?”
    Fruli’s wings began to beat even faster. “I . . . I . . . I like to come here when the day is over and smell the orange blossoms. The sweet smell helps me to sleep. There are orange trees like this on Meringue Island, and the smell reminds me of home.”

    Berry was trying to get Raina’s attention. She didn’t want her mentioning to Fruli what they were doing. All Berry needed was for Fruli to know that she had picked sour wild cherry hearts—and given them to one of her best friends. Worse yet, she couldn’t let her know that Dash was yellow because of her!
    â€œWe have to get going,” Berry said quickly. She grabbed a shawl from her bag and covered her stained dress. Then she pulled on Raina’s hand and took her to the other side of the meadow.
    â€œBerry!” Raina cried. “We didn’t even say good-bye. Why are you acting so