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should really go to a fairy school if you want to keep training as a fairy.’
    â€˜Well, actually,’ said Elly, ‘if it’s OK with Madame Fernyfrond, I’d like to stay here at the Rainbow Academy. I get the feeling that I could learn lots of useful things here. Besides,’ she laughed, ‘I can’t wait to see what food we get on pink day!’
    â€˜I don’t know,’ said Elly’s mother, looking worried. ‘We really missed you while we were away, and the house would be so empty if you stayed here as a boarder.’
    Kara clung on tightly to Elly’s neck, and did an extra-specially big dribble to show that she agreed.

    â€˜Elly could come to the Rainbow Academy as a day student!’ suggested Saphie. ‘Couldn’t she catch the Fairy Flock into Rainbowville everyday?’
    Then Saphie turned to Madame and added, a little shyly, ‘Grandma, I miss my parents, too. Maybe Elly and I could be day students together?’
    Elly’s heart leapt. The Fairy Flock was the way most unlicensed fairies got to school, travelling in one big group disguised as a cloud. Usually, Elly hated it. But I could get used to the Fairy Flock, she grinned to herself, if it meant I could see Saphie and Jess everyday!
    Now everyone’s attention turned to Madame Fernyfrond.
    â€˜What do you think, Emmy?’ asked Grandmother, raising an eyebrow. ‘Are you prepared to keep my grand-daughter on at your school as a day student?’
    â€˜Of course!’ replied Madame Fernyfrond promptly. ‘I never had any doubts about that.’
    Elly grinned. ‘Thanks so much, Madame Fernyfrond,’ she said earnestly. ‘I promise I won’t let you down.’
    â€˜And Sapphire, you and I will need to talk to your parents,’ Madame said. Then she suddenly looked very serious. ‘But, there is one condition, Elinora. An important one.’
    â€˜What is that, Madame?’ asked Elly nervously. ‘I’ll do anything I can.’
    â€˜You and Sapphire must untangle the rainbow,’ said Madame. ‘There are approx-imately 2642 threads in the rainbow and you will need to straighten up every single one.’
    That would be like unravelling the biggest woollen jumper in the whole world, and then putting it back together! Elly stared at Saphie and gulped. ‘2642 threads?’ she repeated. ‘That will take forever!’
    â€˜Not forever. But definitely every spare moment for the rest of the week,’ smiled Madame Fernyfrond. ‘It will be a fiddly job, and very, very boring. Are you prepared to do it?’
    â€˜We’d love to, wouldn’t we, Elly?’ replied Saphie, linking her arm through Elly’s.
    Elly nodded. ‘Yes, Madame Fernyfrond,’ she said. ‘It’ll be fun.’
    Then Elly’s eyes fell on something near the door. It looked like her parents had brought her bag of treasured possessions from home – including her skateboard!
    Maybe this untangling job really will be fun, she giggled to herself. At least I’ll have Saphie for company!
    Just then, a bell sounded.
    â€˜It’s breakfast time, fairies!’ said Madame Fernyfrond.
    â€˜Let’s go and eat, Saph,’ said Elly. ‘I’m starving!’
    Elly hugged her family one more time, then headed out the door, grabbing her skateboard and tucking it under her arm as she went.
    As Elly closed the library door behind her, she heard Madame Fernyfrond say to the others, ‘You know, I have a feeling that young Elinora is going to make the Rainbow Academy proud one day. I think she has the makings of a very fine fairy indeed.’
    â€˜As much as I hate to admit it,’ said Grandmother, sounding as if she couldn’t quite believe what she was saying, ‘I think you might be right!’

    It was lucky that Madame Fernyfrond and Grandmother didn’t see what happened the moment Elly was outside the room.