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‘We had visited this small pocket of rainforest about two weeks before and I felt like I was being spoken to. I was asked to return at the next full moon. On dust [at dusk?] I returned to a very large fig tree in the centre of the forest area with my young daughter and husband. I sat down within the roots of the tree with my daughter cuddled up. My husband went to explore around the tree. I closed my eyes and listened to the evening falling on the forest. I could hear something off by the river, almost like music but all natural sounds. I felt like I was being watched, I felt a breeze, like a fan, on my face. I could sense something very close. I opened my eyes and found two figures fluttering just in front of me looking very hard at me. When they realized I was ‘seeing’ them they flitted away. My husband had come around the tree a little while before and watched them in front of me. Soon after this the air became very busy with things flying around the branches of the fig, in and out of the large gaps in the trunk. Not wanting to interrupt the procession or upset the Queen, we chose to leave.’ ‘They were guards, very inquisitive.’ ‘Maybe because of the light they appeared mostly brown. Small human forms with clear wings.’ ‘From traditional stories I grew up with in England I knew of trooping fairies. What I experienced matched the descriptions I knew of from fairy ‘parties’.’ ‘[Fairies] are beings who are part of our natural world.’ ‘I could tell it was the sound of crickets, the wind, the river and frogs. They were all harmonized with a distinct tune.’