I’d take you to the movies…

It had come to her again, the big chestnut kite with his white head and chest. He had perched in a branch overhead and woken the slumbering youth with a sharp shriek before taking to the skies. It may have been true that she was supposed to be trying to find someone to teach her fighting skills and maybe she had grown bored and figured a nap wouldn’t hurt… but that didn’t give him the right to shriek at her!

She rose with a huff, her quills clattering as she shook. He hadn’t gone far, merely perching on the next tree over to watch her with a shining golden eye. She rolled her shoulders. Maybe she didn’t need someone to teach her how to fight. Maybe she just needed to make sure she was fit? Lifting her chin defiantly, the bird ruffled his feathers in response and dove towards the beach, daring the girl to give chase. And she did.

Across the land bridge from the shrine to Nephilim, then Inu and across to the Plains. The bird taunted and the girl chased, only finally calling it quits when the air burned in her lungs and she realised she wasn’t on Ashen land anymore. She looked around with some interest. Of course she had heard they were allies with the Armada but this was her first time coming here. She wondered if anyone else was around?

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