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Now she was exactly like a normal human child. Before leaving, she also had to give up her elf wings and all of her ­magic elven powers. Now, she was exactly like a normal human child.

But aside from those surprise noises, Ilvie and Theo used their secret ­language, twinkling, and in the end, it was very practical!

Once upon a time, long, long ago, all people could twinkle. But today there are very few people who can still “speak” this beautiful old language; most of them have forgotten twinkling. That’s probably because the world outside of the land of the elves has become just a little too loud and too fast. In this story you will see which people still remember the beautiful, old secret language. And which animals, of course. Actually, nearly all animals can twinkle very well if they understand human language; they never forgot how to twinkle.

Pooh! We’ve really been walking for a long time and we’ve gone really far!’ twinkles Theo the little monkey. ‘When will we finally get where we’re going? It seems to me we’ve been walking on this cliff for hours and days and weeks. We haven’t met anyoneatall and my stomach is growling something terrible!’