Angara roused herself from her sleep, and stretched mightily. Someone had put her in Pio's room after she slammed herself against something very hard and unyielding trying to land back on the deck.
She checked herself over, and decided that except for a couple of minor scrapes and a bruised ego, she was fine.
Hopping down from the bed, she was just ambling toward the galley when she overheard Child talking with Kali. So, the poor elf was barely cold and already they were going through her things!
'Hmmmph! No respect for their elders, these young ones.' She hastened back to Pio's room before Kali could come out into the hall and find her. Nosing about in the elf's untidy mess, she found the letter Child had mentioned and tucking it beneath her wing, she went back down the hall and entered Child's room.
'Hello, Child! Were you looking for me?' she purred, as she hopped onto the bed. Drawing close to Child's face, her golden eyes glowed, and she held forth the folded piece of paper with her talons.
'Now what's all this I hear of you sending Kali to steal a letter from Pio's room?'
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Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
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