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...cky job, when any midwife or nursemaid worth her salt had made sure that their charge was carefully protected, with red threads and bells and burning lights, until they were baptised and safe forever. It had been a real challenge.

It had got a lot easier, these days.

No-one, in these modern enlightened times, hung bells around the cradle, or placed into it sharp steel, or hung mirrors in the nursery to repel the Evil Eye. And now that many babies were not baptised, they were vulnerable for far longer. Faeries weren't a threat, they were a children's story; they didn't exist. Your child was abducted by the elves, madam? Nonsense.

All this worked much to the Faeries' advantage. No-one would hunt for something that didn't exist. And so the unexplained disappearances continued, in different countries and different places, sometimes years apart, sometimes months, sometimes only days apart.

The Faeries had always stolen children.

It was...what they did.

Trying to explain this to Doug...

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