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This is a journal for Shiaree to use as she coaxes her Fenthry out of their feathers and has lots of fun adventures with them.

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It was dark. Pitch black. They had been wandering around in the caves for quite some time now after L-chan had unexpectedly located the entrance to the mountain.

"Let's call it a night, shall we?" Shiaree suggested,
"I'll take first watch-- I don't have to sleep as long as you do."

Elves in general only needed around six hours of sleep at the most. And those were usually the ones who had to study spells or pray for them in the morning. Shiaree did neither, but relied on the abilities she had gained naturally and from her training instead. She was quite certain the Goddess had forsaken her at this point.

The others agreed eventually, and she helped them settle down for the night. Less than an hour later, her companions were asleep. There was a dull light from the Grimorum, and Shiaree found herself in a strange little shop. A display case in the center held feathers that were apparently for sale, and a sign on top of the case told her the sales procedure.

Panicked, she started to scold the Grimorum over taking her away from her companions. But it assured her, in it's own way, that it was keeping watch over them, and that she would be summoned back immediately if something were to happen where she would be needed or missed.

It also seemed to indicate, though more by feeling than by words as it usually did, that she should pick out one of these feathers to take with her. Not one to say no to the true leader of their expedition-- the one thing that knew more than anything else where they would be headed, she did as asked.

There was a feather for auction. She made a bid. But she couldn't wait around long enough to find out if she had won. The Grimorum put her back the moment one of her companions started to wake.

It wasn't until the next day that she managed to find out the truth about the auction. That she had won. She spent probably the entire watch period talking with some of the other Fenthry (as she had learned they were called) owners, and then was summoned back by the Grimorum in time for her own rest period.

But she had the feather when she returned. Tucked comfortably into her pocket. And she'd been able to see some of her pets while she was journeying as well-- the Grimorum summoned them to the store with her at random points in time.

Still, there was no telling why she needed the Fenthry so much that the Grimorum had sent her there. And they had both arranged for her to spend a day back at her house so that Linali would not get too upset at her absence, though she'd spent most of it studying the Fenthry.

Journal Entry

I'm still quite surprised at the amount of time I seem able to leave the group without them knowing. I still don't feel it's right for me to tell them that the Earth Grimorum keeps sending me away when I'm supposed to be on watch.

But the fact of the matter is that it somehow feels that these things will help my Quest somehow. The Telesma and the Fenthry...and keeping my daughter and other pets..children, really, from worrying is always a nice bonus. So I won't complain.

I did manage to get past all the craziness in the kitchen yesterday and make dinner for them all. Linali was particularly pleased. Covaris isn't much of a cook, and Lafiel can burn water-- or so I've heard. So neither of them are really much for making dinner for them.

I'm glad Lafiel has taken to bringing Linali home in the evenings every night. I suppose she has figured out what's going on-- I doubt Linali would bother to keep it a secret.

So many secrets...

((An OOC note: This takes place before the previous journal entry, but I wanted to get that down. xD. And now I've simply -got- to write this story. I hope you don't mind.))

Shiaree sat with the feather held gently between two fingers. She had managed to convince the various denizens of her house to leave the room, and had been concentrating simply on the feather for around an hour now.

It was a beautiful feather indeed. She didn't know how they had been able to know it was male, but he was a gorgeous male...or would be, if and when he decided to leave the feather. Brushing her fingers gently along the softness of it, she played with the idea that he really was gorgeous already, even in feather form.

But her thoughts were going in circles. Perhaps because she was running out of ideas. How was she to get the little guy out? She had already been nurturing it..him.. for the past couple of days. She'd been quite careful to make sure she treated the feather almost as if it -were- the Fenthry already-- talking to him, offering him food or drink and imagining he refused, carefully tucking it into her pocket as though tucking him into bed.

And wheedling, convincing, encouraging him to come out of his shell.

As she sat there, speaking softly to him once more, the feather seemed to pull out of her hands, floating gently up into the air. There was a bright light, and suddenly there he was. All soft brown fur and blue wings and hair. Absolutely adorable, and looking terrified. Without hesitation, he scrambled for Shiaree's lap, and the elf cuddled him reassuringly,
"There now..it's okay..I'm glad you decided to come out, sweet one," she whispered gently, soothingly.

The little guy still shuddered nervously, and she sighed. This was going to take some time.

He curled in her lap, fit there just perfectly. Katsu was quite exhausted after his very long day. The two of them had spent a good deal of time together-- she attempting to get him more comfortable around the rest of her 'children' and Katsu attempting to please her.

The little fenthry did seem to be making some progress. It seemed that his encounters with both Roulette and Prolixity had changed his opinion of the outside world even just a little bit. He had managed to let himself near Cera-- who had been warned to be gentle with him..though he still quite feared Akiiki.

It wasn't really that the sphynx was intimidating or anything. More that he just didn't seem to realize how frightened Katsu was and continually neglected to take any sort of caution in approaching him. He was much too rough, though he didn't seem to want to -be- rough. Instincts could be a hazard sometimes.

Gently, she stroked the little fenthry's head as he dozed. But her thoughts weren't quite on Katsuhiko. Indeed, she had taken to wondering just a little bit about the new fenthry feather she was keeping in her hair. Since Katsuhiko now loved her hair, she had no doubts that it was a safe place for the beautiful yellow feather she had recently adopted at the Preservation Society.

But what, she wondered, would it be like? It was female, she had been told. And she'd felt a bit more response as she tried to coerce this one out of her feather than she had from Katsu. Perhaps she wasn't quite so afraid as her 'brother' had been. That would be rather nice...she had enough difficulties working with Katsu as well as teaching Cera and Boyue.