March first, the first day of Spring in a lot of places.

[She's only mentioning it now because she sure is lacking some inhibitions.]

But wars, incredible amounts of pollution, crimes. The Terrestial Fairies kept the balance of the world, but they'd been gone for centuries. Humans stopped believing in magic as a result of their absence, and everything declined. It could have been a lot worse, there are still a lot of things to like about Earth as it was, but people there were also...disconnected. It was pretty difficult to get them to start believing in magic, again.