Holly looked up at the sound of a low, ratchety chuckle, and watched as a flash of silver fell at her feet. The little crow gave her a wink and a nod. Holly silently picked up the coin that the crow had dropped, then turned and walked back down the line to the strange little singer.
"Eirian, I think I heard the wizard call you? Here, I believe this coin belongs to you." And Holly held out the silver piece to her.
Suddenly both girls looked up as a crow in a tree set up the most outrageous racket, cawing and flapping it's wings as if it were in the greatest of distress.
"Why, what has upset that bird in the tree?" wondered Eirian. "it shrieks as if someone had robbed its nest."
Holly merely smiled, and returned to Peri.
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