In our last day, Smoky Barnacle ends his tale where it all began. Called into the fairy world he never quite believed in to join the family he never quite belonged to, he ventures into the great unknown, apprehensive, but then with growing recognition once he understands his part in the tale. We are, after all, trying only to find our place in the world, and Smoky has found his.

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