The Best Part: Women Fighting Again! But White Lady

The Wild Hunt cleared the road leading to the Heart of the Forest.

They even temporarily sent the chattering, fluttering faeries from the Heart of the Forest's palace to the "Starrest Theater."

Of course, the faeries would not obediently listen, but Lord Herne tricked them by saying that, to celebrate the Queen soon walking through the forest again, the capable faeries needed to hurry and rehearse a new play, which the Queen would personally attend.

The lord also said that no one in the entire grove besides the faeries could do this job properly, so it could only be entrusted to them.

Thus, the adorably foolish faeries, delighted by the flattery, immediately believed him. Whooping excitedly, they headed to the Starrest Theater, ready to show off their talents.

Speaking of the "Starrest Theater," it was a remarkable place in every sense.

The faeries had built it and ran it themselves. They used some terrible sets and decidedly amateur actors to adapt the exciting tales that immortal spirits had experienced in the material world into plays suited to the "constitution of local babies."

Honestly, faerie plays were worse than BabyBus, and because of the faeries' slapdash nature, all sorts of performance mishaps happened constantly.

But faeries were skilled in illusions, so they could always salvage the show in all kinds of miraculous ways, with surprisingly good results.

In short, faerie theater had a rather high "appreciation threshold." Only people whose brainwaves could somehow sync with the faeries' bizarre wavelength could appreciate their performing arts. A Holy Light bumpkin like Diakum clearly could not.

But that did not stop certain great beings from loving such plays.

For instance, the Winter Queen was actually a seasoned connoisseur of faerie art, and Ysera, who had come to the Shadowlands after a string of absurd