Leave?” their grandmother said, and she made a funny face at them. “Who said anything about leaving?” “Aren’t you dying?” Conner asked her softly. “Isn’t that why you wouldn’t get out of bed?” The Fairy Godmother put her hands on her grandchildren’s faces. “Yes, children, I am dying,” she said. “But what the other fairies didn’t explain is that a fairy never really dies. When a fairy’s time is up, his or her soul simply returns to magic.