"We were six in number. We had been six for a while, all girls." Their father is king of the faeries who live deep in the woods. The girls await his seasonal visits with wild excitement. Cast out by the faeries before her first child was born, their mother raises her daughters in town, living in constant fear that the faeries will come to steal her children from her. In a moment of desperation, the girls venture into the forbidden woods to find their father and compel him to spend more time with them, but once they enter the forest, they might never return home. *This is a short story of about 8,500 words.*