#brightwindsbarony

The sky maybe Sparrow's favorite place, but exploring the cave, there's so much to see about it. Room to fly, tiny crystals. Enough natural stone walks at the surface to go out without geting wet if you're careful, and of course, the nearly ice cold water

"So, Grete - what do you think?"

WIDE EYES. “Has this been here all along?!”

"Nope. I told you - it was an Imbolc gift."

"I want to explore it.. ALL Of it" Felicty says, the Eiluned having followed whether she was invited or not "It's got to have secrets. Clues to the hold's history, or the land or... or or ... " She might blue screen

“But SOMETHING must have been here!” Excited! “Did the rocks move themselves? Or did they turn into something new?”

"Oh boy, when Ryder sees this he may want to turn it into a chamber... building is his thing," Ashlee sounds concerned the boy might go overboard

"Well... we can talk about a safer bridge to the island, maybe...."

"Though I think we'll be glad of the cold water, come summer."

“I think it’s perfect. Add to it maybe but don’t change it.” She swishes a hand through the water, and checks, groping the bottom, for any smooth washed stones.

The water is quite cold, but then, even in Texas, it's Winter. Maybe the water comes from higher up in the mountains somehow? But she is rewarded, a stone about the size of her palm, a neat little oval, can be felt.

Holding it up, she admires it!

"Can I have a throne built right there looking down on my kingdom of crystal and stone while I steeple my fingers?" Squire Felicty says

Catir sighs "Eiluned"

"No, but you can pretend just about anything."

The stone is dark hued, but with little veins of lighter almost white in streaks

“Pretty.” She places it carefully back on the shore, where the water can lap over it but it’s still visible. “For everyone to see.”

"Like a tabby cat." Irene offers.

Felicty seems distracted, already imagining her games

Catir however nods "It is rather pretty now that I see it better. What do you think, Ashlee?"

"mm? Oh" Ashlee blushes . She was spelling out her name with smaller stones

Catir looks suspicious suddenly, and glances around. Yes, like she's thinking someone has tricked he into falling a sleep via a bed time story

Grete wanders, running her fingers along the walls, and just admiring.

Oh Grete's in Wichtel heaven. NO way is she letting Ryder go nuts with trying to turn this into a plain old room

"What?" Irene pops up by the Gwydion now.

“I wonder if you could tunnel from here. Maybe even all the way out to our Fort.” A sigh. “Except the sharks.” Then, her eyes widen and she lays her hand on the wall, whispering to a particularly glistening bit of crystal. “Are there any sharks coming through to here?”

A suspicious look at the baroness too, "Did the hold arrange this.. not saying on YOUR Orders... to keep us safer so we didnn't go to play a the fort?"

Catir's litttle brows are knit as she asks

“It’s nice... but it's not ours.”

Ashlee says "I can protect them, I think.. I'm getting better"

"Well... I mean, you can play here, too." Sparrow rustles, uncertain.

Grete looks up and shakes her head at Sparrow. “It’s not YOUR fault there are sharks. Maybe you could get some spearfishers out to scare them away!”

"I was going to see if someone could talk to them..."

"Otha knows nature, but I don't know if she knows land sharks" Ashlee says "And yeah, it's not your fault"

“Maybe they could work for you. Feed them and have them patrol! No one sees them coming....” A grin.

“I wonder if they could find neat things in the earth without digging. Like a dolphin bringing a shell to show you”

"Well, Dubh and Ross said they were aggressive..."

"Oh right. They weree hunted"

Grete frowns. “Now I feel bad. I thought the were just hunting US.”

Felicty ponders "Everything has a reason for what it does. Maybe if they're fed they won't care. "

"Maybe if there are good hunting grounds, they can gp there."

Catir nods "We CAN get rid of them one way or another. Even i its only asking Sir Earl or Sir Bachdion to flicker flash them"

"My preference is to relocate. And then you can go back to your fort."

“I want to know how they swim in the ground.”

"Probably a special magic. I don't know if you can learn an art from a chimera, but you might be able to harness it for a treasure?"

Catir smiles as Sparrow pretty much confirms they will get their fort

“That would be nice...” She says, a touch wistfully.

"I look forward to it being warm enough to swim..." Sparrow sighs, happily. She stretches her wings, imagining it.

“Oh we can do this!” Grete gathers up some small, flat stones. “I’ve seen people skip rocks in movies and on teevee...”

She tries... PLUNK.

"Are you trying to skip the stones?" Catir asks