Emberwood swallows circling with their shimmering sound

I promise, too. The smile on her face fell to a look of solemnity, for she meant this promise to him more than anything else that they shared. Akuti took a deep breath and managed to snuggle her way back into his embrace, albeit more so than before. There was something about the way that Grayday held her that made her forget about all the bad and focus on the good. It was as if he had some sort of hunky hunk magic which managed to quell her anxieties and fears.

So its settled — I'm coming with you. Where are the children? In her mind, she thought that it would only be the four of them, though she would soon find that this was a very wrong assumption to make. She peered around Grayday's form to send her eyes dashing across the scene, looking for any sign of their tiny bodies in the moonlit eve.