The Winter Woods seemed even more spectacular to Tinker Bell now that her sister was showing her around. Icicles covered everything, and the pure white snow sparkled on trees and in fields. To Tinker Bell, it appeared as if the whole world was glowing!

Together, the sisters visited Periwinkle’s favorite spots. First they stopped at the Winter Field, with its endless mounds of snow that were perfect for sledding. Then they visited the Icicle Cave, with its hundreds of twinkling icicles in all shapes and sizes. Periwinkle flitted between frosted trees while Tink ran through snowdrifts. They even went to see the Pixie Dust Well. It was similar to the Pixie Dust Tree on the warm side of Pixie Hollow, except that the pixie dust here flowed from a hollow root. The root connected, underground, all the way back to the main Pixie Dust Tree on the warm side. This was where Periwinkle had arrived when she was born. Tinker Bell smiled. She would have loved to have been with her sister when they both arrived in Never Land.

But most of all, Tinker Bell and Periwinkle couldn’t stop talking. There was so much to catch up on. They shared stories of their adventures. Periwinkle wanted to hear all about tinkering. And Tink listened with wide eyes as Periwinkle explained that she was a frost talent. It was her job to frost things throughout the Winter Woods.

Soon they reached Periwinkle’s home. Tink had never seen anything like it. It was a cold but cozy cave nestled high up on the side of a snowy mountain. It even had an ice-crest ledge for a front porch. From the tip of the ledge, Tink could see all the way to the border of winter!

Periwinkle showed Tink her room, and opened a drawer full of lost objects that she had collected. Tinker Bell pulled a paper clip from the treasures.

“You collect Lost Things, too?” she asked eagerly.

Periwinkle grinned. “I call them Found Things,” she told Tink.

A short while later, the two sisters went ice-skating using skates they had made from the paper clips! Tink wasn’t very steady on her feet, but Periwinkle was patient and helped her sister glide across the frozen pond. Later, they tried snowboarding…and wound up landing in a heap among the trees.

When the two fairies grew tired, they sat on a branch to rest. Down below, a snowflake fairy was busy twirling a handful of snow high in the air as if it were a pizza. Then she expertly poked out a pattern in the frosty crystals. Each flake she made floated gently past Tinker Bell and Periwinkle, and no two were alike.

Tinker Bell sighed. This was the best day ever!

In the afternoon, Periwinkle took Tinker Bell to see two of her close friends in the Frost Forest. “That’s Gliss,” Periwinkle whispered, pointing to a fairy a short distance away. The two sisters didn’t want to get caught, so they were hiding behind a snowy branch where the other fairies couldn’t see them.

“And that’s Spike,” Periwinkle added.

Just then, Tinker Bell slipped and fell onto a snowdrift below. Periwinkle flew to catch her, and they both wound up sliding right into Gliss’s and Spike’s arms!

“Hi,” Periwinkle said, smiling sheepishly at her friends.

When the two sisters had explained everything, Spike and Gliss looked at them in disbelief. “Sisters?” Spike asked, her eyebrows raised.

“Well, I think it’s fantastic!” Gliss exclaimed. “You two look exactly alike! I mean, except for your clothes, and your hair, and Peri’s a bit more pale.” She took a deep breath and stood back to examine the two fairies. “But your noses are very similar!” she said, nodding.

Spike shook her head. “Forget their noses. She’s a warm fairy in winter!” She pointed at Tink.

“You’re right!” Gliss agreed. “We gotta show her around.” She smiled at Tinker Bell. “Oh, oh, oh! Let’s take her ice-sliding.”

Periwinkle turned to her sister with a knowing twinkle in her eye. “You are going to love this,” she said.

Soon, all four fairies were teetering at the top of a high frozen waterfall aboard a toboggan.

“Ready, set, slide!” Periwinkle called out.

Tink shrieked in delight as they went racing down the icy hill. She couldn’t remember ever having this much fun in her life.

That night, as the stars twinkled overhead, Periwinkle and Tinker Bell sat by a small campfire on the ice crest in front of Peri’s home. They chatted quietly in the frosty night air.

“Favorite star?” Tinker Bell asked.

“Second Star—” Periwinkle started to say.

“—to the Right,” Tink finished.

They laughed.

“Okay,” Periwinkle said. “Favorite drink?”

“Hot chamomile tea,” Tinker Bell said.

“Iced chamomile tea.” Periwinkle giggled. She and her sister had so much in common!

“Okay, my turn,” Tinker Bell said eagerly. She had the perfect question. “Favorite bug?”

“Bug?” Periwinkle paused for a moment. “It’s too cold for bugs over here. But in one of Dewey’s books I read about butterflies.”

“Oh, in Butterfly Cove there are hundreds of them,” Tinker Bell said. She looked out toward where she thought the center of Pixie Hollow would be. “It’s in summer, right over…” She scanned the horizon, but all she could see was the frozen land of winter. “Hmm. I guess you can’t see it from here.”

“No, you can’t,” Periwinkle said sadly. She was quiet for a moment. Then she asked, “What’s it like over there?”

“Warm,” Tinker Bell answered.

“And the colors? The sounds? All the animals?” Periwinkle’s eyes searched her sister’s face. “And the fish! They swim in melted ice, right?”

Tinker Bell smiled. “Water,” she said.

Periwinkle sighed. “I wish I could go there.”

The two fairies sat side by side, watching the night sky. Then Tinker Bell looked at the tiny campfire that was keeping her comfortably warm. It gave her an idea.

“Peri?” she said slowly. “I made it warmer over here. Maybe I could make it colder over there.”

Periwinkle gasped. “Are you saying I could cross?” The winter fairy’s heart leapt. Crossing the border was something she had never thought was possible.

“Yeah!” Tinker Bell replied.

“Oh, Tink! You could show me your world. I could meet your friends. Wait…do you think I could see a butterfly?” Periwinkle asked excitedly.

Tinker Bell smiled at her sister. “There’s a pretty good chance,” she said. Her mind was racing with ideas about how she could bring Periwinkle over to the warmer seasons. This would be her biggest tinkering challenge yet!

The two sisters were so busy chattering about their plans that they didn’t notice that the campfire they had made was slowly melting the ice. It wasn’t until they heard a loud crack that they realized something was very wrong.