When Iver realized that the cake cart beneath him had begun to slow down, he knew they were almost at their destination.
The rhythm of the piano he was playing gradually slowed as well. Finally, after opening the last door, it came to a slow stop directly before the Frozen Throne.
The piano before Iver dissolved into sparkling dust and transformed back into the blue-haired fairy called Lilia.
She was clearly a little dizzy from the spinning, so as soon as she returned to her original form, she went limp and fell onto Iver's lap. Iver reached out, picked her up, and stuffed her into his pocket before respectfully saluting the Fairy Queen. "May you always be happy, Your Majesty Titania."
"It's our first meeting, Iver."
Titania spoke in an elegant, rational voice. "I've heard your story for a long time. I've also been very curious about you."
Although she still had a young girl's voice, compared with the unruly fairies, just listening to her composed tone made it feel as though she was at least a dozen years older.
--Iver had finally seen Fairy Queen Titania with his own eyes. The true form of a great being at the Angelic level... Not a dream, nor the Dream Realm, but someone who had appeared right before him... less than five or six meters away.
The enormous fairy stood three or four meters tall, and her beauty surpassed that of any being in the world.
She had long, curly white hair the color of milk candy. It reached her waist, and there was an unbelievable amount of it. Her irises were amber, and she had sharp, elven ears.
She wore a pure-white, high-collared formal dress with a heart-shaped opening at the chest. A blue crystal necklace rested on her tall, fair