Lost Time...

"But where do you look?" asked Nutmegg.  Lil' Boots just shrugged his shoulders and gave that universal look of 'I don't know' and answered "I've never lost an hour before.  How should I know where to look?"

​"This is all very frustrating," growled Nutmegg.  "The sun is now coming up later than it did before and goes down now later than it did before.  How does it know to do that?"

Again, Lil' Boots could not answer.  The whole problem started with Allspice making some comment about losing an hour now that it was spring time.  "Maybe that's it!" thought Nutmegg as he remembered that Allspice had also said something about 'springing forward an hour'.  "I got it," Nutmegg told Lil' Boots.  "Spring took it!"

It took a while before Lil' Boots answered because he tried and tried to see how Spring could just take an hour but none of his thoughts added up.  "I don't see how Spring can just take an hour," he told Nutmegg.  " I mean, why would it only take an hour when it could take a whole day?  Spring already takes away the snow and starts turning some of the plants green, so why only take an hour?"

Nutmegg, being the detective he liked to think of himself as being, decided that this mystery must have an answer somewhere.  "We need to question others to see what they know," he told Lil' Boots as he started off to see if they could find someone else who may know the answer to the missing hour.

It wasn't long before they came across a large tree frog hopping back and forth across a mushroom.  "Excuse me, do you have a moment to help out two travelers with a couple questions about your realm?" asked Nutmegg. 

The frog took one long hop and landed just in front of them.  "Hi.  My name is Tad.  How can I help?  By the way, that's a nice compass.  My friend Acorn has one just like it," said the frog.

"Thanks," answered Lil' Boots.  "We have a question and are wondering if you can help us.  Just the other day we were told that everyone here lost an hour of time and we were wondering how that happens.  Is it a one-time thing or does something like it happen often here in this realm?"

Of all the things really hysterical, one of them is watching a frog laugh!  Especially if they are trying not to because their eyes bulge out a little bit more...  When he was able to, Tad finally caught a short breathe and told them about how the realm had a way of saving daylight to use later.

"Some call it daylite savuns," Tad told them when he was finished with how the hour was not really taken, just sprung forward from the beginning of the day to the end of the day.  "It's like magic that only happens from spring until winter so we can have more light in the evening instead of while we are asleep in the morning.  We frogs know all about it.  We call it 'springing forward'." 

As Nutmegg and Lil' Boots thanked the frog and started to return back to their cave, they both were wondering if this was something that would catch on when they got back to their own realms if they told others about this 'daylite savuns' magic.