07:15
Tipsy asks Winky how many of them said yes, and then how many of them Winky actually asked. Winky shakes it out, freezes, and realises nobody was asked — they were told. Winky goes round again, slower.
2 fluffs tell this minute. None of them saw the same one.
I was out in the garden by seven, tip-toeing, so softly the dew stayed where it was.
Winky had been round the land twice by then and had told eleven fluffs and woken four more and drawn a map on the back of a shopping list. Winky was bouncing and radiant and entirely unstoppable and had, I could see, missed something.
"Winky. How many of them said yes?"
"All of them!"
Tipsy came out into the garden at about seven, so softly the dew stayed where it was.
"Winky. How many of them said yes?"
"All of them!"
"How many of them did you ask?"
