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Hotel 'FairyTale' - Chapter 11 - Irises On one of the warm summer evenings, when the sun was already setting and twilight was descending upon the hotel, Alex and Elizabeth had brushed their teeth and were lying in their beds, waiting for sleep to envelop their consciousness. They had spent the whole day in the park, where Alex, then still an adult man, had first recalled and felt the taste of carefree childhood. Now, Alex lay in his blue pajamas with an embroidered bear on the chest, gazing at the ceiling. «Ellie, are you asleep?» the boy called out to his friend. «No,» she replied. After a short pause, Alex continued: «Ellie, what’s it like being little?» «You should tell me, out of the two of us, only you sleep in a diaper!» Ellie giggled. Despite her love for Alex, she couldn’t miss the opportunity to tease him about such a personal topic. Alex occasionally got offended, but not this time. «Yeah, I’m not talking about that,» he continued. «Do you remember what happened to you when you turned two?» Ellie understood that