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Angel was thrilled when Sega accepted Dreama and Eti with grace and kindness, just as she had hoped and halfway expected. She shot a bright smile at Dreama and a gentler one at Eti.

"I'll show you where my friend Elowyn and I sleep," she said to Dreama in particular, thinking that Eti would likely not feel any desire to settle close to her.

Her gaze lingered then on Sega. There was quiet thanks in her eyes, and bright happiness — but something else, too. Approval of her own. Perhaps he, too, had just passed a test of some kind.

She was ready then to take their newcomers to a place where they could fill their bellies.