After further investigation I think I’ve solved the troubling questions regarding the carnage of, what turns out to be, at least five pixies, according to Doctor Tom Holtz’s study of the remains.
The first clue was an interview with the Reverend and an examination of the PC-box. It turns out that the PC-box was not in use. In fact, many of the hardware had been removed and fitted into a new computer she had put together a couple of months ago. The old PC-box was just standing in a corner, half forgotten. She didn’t want to get rid of it, because she thought that she might use it later and have it rebuild as a backup PC. It was completely by accident that she noticed that the pixies had turned it into a nest. One evening very late she came to the study to find a book when she heard the noise. She thought it to be rats, but it turned out to be much more surprising. Over a long period she gained their trust and some evenings they would even come out while she was in the room, always exceptionally quiet. They’d just stare at her from a distance. The Reverend isn’t too sure about their sleeping patterns but it seems that they were most active at night. She never saw, nor heard them during the day. Since they never bothered her or anybody else, she decided to keep their existence a secret from other people.
My initial question as to the pixies attraction to the PC-box was answered by this. I think that they were not attracted to the PC-box because it is an electronic artefact (affirming Doctor Tom Holtz’s conclusion that these were not ET-pucks); rather, they were attracted to the PC-box because it seemed to provide good cover and safety. The PC-box was hid away in a corner behind a cabinet in one of the quietest places on the Parish grounds and with winter coming this must have seemed like a safe and warm place to the pixies.
Pixies usually do not live so close to humans. They might live in human dwellings, but will stay in the cellar or basement where there is not too much human activity. I’m of the opinion that these pixies deliberately chose to be a little closer to humans. Although afraid of humans, it turns out they were more afraid of something else and therefore slacked their caution of humans -- at least of the Reverend.
It was at the Somerset County Library in Wellington that I found a clue in an old book, the pages yellowed by age. It turns out that Buckland St Mary has a rich faeryfolk history. According to folklore, centuries ago there was a great battle between pixies and faeries that took place in Buckland St Mary. It is unclear what the battle was about, not that there needs to be one as it is well known that pixies and fairies are territorial. According to the records the pixies won that battle and the fairies left the area after their loss.
It is my opinion that the fairies have been moving back and slowly exterminating their former rivals and territorial competitors. When I ran my hypothesis by Miss Mary Tudor she said that now that I mention it, it could very well be fairies. Fairies have the lightest odour of all the faeryfolk, which is probably the reason Miss Mary Tudor couldn’t make out there scent before. I asked Doctor Tom Holtz to run some scans for fairy residue, commonly known as fairy dust, amongst the remains of the pixies and he confirmed that there is indeed fairy residue. (Fairy dust, unlike popular belief, is not magical, but merely tiny scales from their wings – similar to the scales of moths. It is rumoured to have medicinal value.)
In recent decades there have been rumours of pixies around the old Buckland Windmill. I think a thorough investigation would probably find that these pixies are all gone; probably replaced by a new fairy community. Regrettably our party do not have the time to do such an investigation as our main priority, after all, is finding ET-pucks. We already left for our next destination a couple of hours ago. Time is running out. D-day is coming.
Photo from BucklandSurrey.Net
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