BLUE FAIRY

No one could say when the flower appeared.

It was not there in the earlier photographs, that much was certain, but no one could be sure it had arrived later, because photographs, like people, remember only what was placed before them.

The girl never offered an explanation.

One day someone asked whether she intended to remove it.

What for, she replied.

And the conversation ended there, which is where most questions end when they receive a sufficient answer.