Snow fairies: fantasy

Dancing on snowflakes is not as easy as you might think to look at the snow fairies. They don't usually share statistics, but I know for a fact that a good third of would-be snow fairies die in the training process. Some even die after they are officially accepted. Those breathtaking plunges you see sometimes in the middle of a blizzard? Yeah. Dead at the end. The others usually come after them and clean up the tiny broken bodies before you see. It's that important to preserve the wonder and magic of the snow fairies. Without that, they wouldn't have any power or creds. It's a harder life than it looks like to the outside tourists, though. Fairies in general have it pretty hard, since they've got those lovely wings and we expect to see them do things like flying--which is, I've been told, frankly impossible unless the fairy genera in question has built up a hefty belief balance. And it's hard to build up a belief balance unless you can fly, if you're a fairy. Catch-22. Of course, the hiding in the woods and shyly peeking out from behind things is a traditional path, too.


Inspiration: I have no clue.
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Setting, really.