And over the ledge they go... falling through rain clouds, miles and miles below in the mortal world with a hard, too hard ground awaitin them! They've run out of sea!
And that's when the Kestrel spreads it's Chimerical wings!
"She flies?" Siv says in a gasp, "She flies!" As they leave the Near Dreaming, she gasps, "Oh, it's cold!"
And she doesn't mean the upper atmosphere or the wind rushing past, as they return to a banal world. For a moment, she winks out, then suddenly. Siv has a body! A shadow, and ...a mortal seeming. Like all changelings, her fae seeming overlaps with it, but there's a very mortal girl,flesh and blood and shorter than her fae size but still...
"I'm real, I'm really real...." She smiles "how? How is it..."
As her parents no doubt squeeze her excitedly, their memories a tumble but knowing she is precious to them they glance past her and see...
A figure? What was his name? Nelson? No, Nyles..the pure fae soul is freezing, shiveering a huddle.
"When I learned my fate was to be be forver undone and unsung it always confused me.." the ...what is his NAME again? "I thought it would be cold iron...the soul death, but unsung? it didn't make sense... then I met the mad one... You'll remember her... She'll remember you, at least ore than you expected. And... she gained a body from ..well, not nothing in trade... yes, good bargain, Mad One... good bargain..." He begins to break apart into star dust