#earthrunes

She walks forward..and hears sniffing... and she gets pulled...but then spins.... okay going blind might not ...wait what was that?

"Faith... " She breathes. She's not Fiona, but she can be brave...

a wind? an updraft

but the floor FEELS solid

no, something is definitely tickling her wings

One hand on the leash, the other feels about. Her wings spread, half-mantled.

Oh yes, she feels it...there's a gust coming up from the floor.

"Sis?" He doesn't feel it, but hter brother knows she's onto something.

Ladybird soudns frustrated. Maybe the breeze throws scents off

"Wind - what's above?"

"Skylight" He says

"We must go up."

"Ah..." A look "It's almost twenty feet"

"Do we have witnesses?"

"Hold on a sec." He says "Not yet... not yet.... It's cleearrr now"

And... she launches, with a powerful beating of her great golden wings...

She hits the skylight which swings open from the force and finds herself out and ...

hears a voice "help..."

a boy's voice.

"Hello? August?"

She lands on the roof.

"yes... help. It wont' let me go"

"It won't let folks see"

She feels glamouur nearby

Twisted, fearful

"Well, I'm here to help. Shh, be calm." She kenns.

Nervousa!

the voice is not a whisper.. it is shrill, hysterical and cruel

"He's mine now... lost...trapped... a mother's fear, a father's terror... I'm getting SO fat on their fear"

"He is not yours, beast." She turns, spreading her wings and drawing her sword.

"How will yo ufight me blilnd, oh knight of the cursed oak"

Something undulates, the sound of layers of skin on skin

"With my blade, monster."

And.. a swish, a whipping motion at the sound of shifting layers.

"And if you hit the boy? He's enchanted you know... a small down payment but such rich.. interest.." But she hears something recoil

August wimpers "Don't look at it's eyes, if it looks at you you don't see us... the police tried. They didn't see"

"Silence..calf. You are meal, not squeel hehehe meal not squeal"

"Thank you, August. I will do my best to not hit you..."

She waits, she listens...one thing Sparrow has is speed...