Have one resigned-looking fairy coming right up to them. They're ready to cut to the chase? Well, then so is she.

"Pardon... I can and would love to do more than I have been, but I'll need something, to be able to. Some sort of crystal. Something with a solid structure all the way through, and without too many flaws, for preference. Something large, or multiple smaller ones. Quartz is actually rather ideal. It needn't even be cut or polished." She looked between the two of them. "I can gather a massive amount of power to do the things I do, but I can only hold so much at once directly for long. I've been making do with a handful of beads and a few vials of water, but it's like trying to carry a river in a thimble!"