Senor Saucy Pants

"Is there something I can do?" I asked, wishing I wasn't so magically inept in this land.

Anna shook her head. "No, it's the curse. No one can help me except Mizrabel, and she won't." She spat the last word out.

Bright, sparkling stars surrounded her entirely and then she was no longer a woodland fairy, but two brown rabbits again.

They wiggled their noses at me.

I kneeled on the floor next to them.

The one on the right climbed into my lap and burrowed under my arms.

The one of the left bit my outstretched finger and darted behind the curtains.

"Hey, where are you going?" I called after it.

Of course, there was no answer. I glanced at the bunny still in my lap. "I'm guessing you're Anna, and the other, more offensive one is Belle?"

She looked at me with her dark eyes, then hopped behind the curtain after the other one.

Though all the animals in Polonias could speak, I guessed Anna and Belle couldn't because of Mizrabel.

Or perhaps it was as with the posies. I didn't understand t