us to deliver their babies and rewarded us with gold. They helped with the household chores and drank the milk we spilled. Sometimes, they shape-shifted and married a human, bringing the wildness and the magic into our hard and mundane lives. They told us stories of wonder that gave us new ideas and creations. Sometimes, they were as harsh and cruel as we are; at other times, they were as kind as the angels we like to imagine. Can we survive without the richness of their culture?

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