Chimera Fields We found to our surprise that he was not fearsome

Kai, and Tula. Easy names to remember if nothing else and at least she seemed able to slip into some comfortable mindset to answer and ask; the gentle prod against his chest obvious enough to pick out. He felt the shift of the bird again, this time as he shifted his stance slightly.

"Dirge," he offered—at least he too had a short name that was as much ill-fitting as it was suiting. "Do you live here?" he went on to wonder with the next breath. He had roamed here a time or two, never shying away from an encounter, but this was the first he had seen of her. The florals there masked them ever so much, yet the tangles of her coat suggested more.