Blackfeather Woods phoenix; you can't touch her without burning

Keeping her here would lead his family to death.  This she knew; hoped.  She had told Towhee she was going on a short trip and it had been days since her expected return.  If her family cared about her at all (and she assumed that they did), they would be sending out scouts.. and from then it was only a matter of time.

But she would not tell him if he would not help her.  She stares at him long, unafraid of the curl of his lip or the heat of his breath... and then rolls her shoulder, reclining back into the shadows.