The girls rested for a while looking at the garden.
They were quite exhausted after doing the rounds, checking the flowers, the plants and generally seeing that everything was growing nicely, that everything was as it should be. It was a routine that they often did together. It also gave them a chance to catch up and take a break from their many other tasks. One of them, the one with the extremely old grandmother, was talking about how the old lady said that those really strange creatures that they all so often talked about really do exist. She said that she had explained that we don’t see them as we see each other. She said that they existed in a different mode of time. For them time passes so slowly that they cannot see us. She said that it was very rare that they see us and vice versa.
Her friend was only half listening. She was watching bees coming and going. She turned and asked, “Well, do you think she’s right…, that they do exist?”
“Humans? Not really.”
They both giggled.
They spread and flapped their wings a little before taking off, back to their homes in the forest.