A log in the fire snapped and the three children throbbed. Mrs. Cobbs had her eyes focused on the sparks in the fireplace, but her thoughts were somewhere else. "I searched for all the pieces of information I could find on fairies," she continued. "But it was hard. People in the village wouldn't want to talk about them as if the very mention of those creatures would have brought malice and misfortune upon them. The older people were the only ones to tell me a bit about the fairies. They said the fairies were responsible for the disappearances in the village. "I began looking for books about fairy folk. You have no idea how many things you can discover if you read between the lines. For behind every tale, there is a bit of truth. That was how I found out that sometimes, the doors betwee

