The Sunspire got up before dawn, went down to the racetrack

"Yup - that's de Man! De Gelman," Wraen repeated one more time to be sure that this would be the first thing Terance would hear from his kid, when he met him in the evening.

With some struggle the boy managed to cover the short distance between the feather's initial location and his aunt. And the toy was proudly dropped at her feet with an announcment that she did not fully understand, but pretended that she did. 

"Why thank you!" she told him, leaning down to pick the wing up and after some deliberation on, what to do with it, tossed it up in the air and let it fall down on the ground. "Want to try this out yourself?"