Since I believe that faerie-ness is fundamentally a matter of remaking culture, the best way to understand faeries is to look at the patterns we play with. Fundamentally, faeries are a group of people who have agreed to listen to each other. This listening, this talking, occurs in the most elemental of faerie forms-the circle. A talisman is passed. Whoever holds the talisman is listened to.
Faeries conceptualize gatherings in many different ways.
Some see them as performance, or a healing rite, or a tribal meeting, or a vacation. Time becomes a matter of riding the rhythm of the day. Faeries relax, and smile more. They touch each other a lot. Land cannot be owned, really.