“Every inventor needs a fixer,” Zarina said, looking at Tink.

Zarina’s pirate hat dissolved completely. Her dust-keeper smock returned, but now it had a single sapphire stripe. The Queen gave her a new title: Keeper of Experimental Dusts. She could still invent—but only with a partner. tinkerbell and the pirate fairy

A battle erupted. Water-talent fairies summoned waves; tinkers fired sewing-needle cannons. But Zarina was brilliant—she used the dust to turn Hook’s own cannonballs into bubbles, then turned Smee’s peg leg into a temporary butterfly wing, sending him spinning across the deck. “Every inventor needs a fixer,” Zarina said, looking