Only ... I did detour through the meadow and I did look for Dragomir and I didn't find him and then I couldn't find Rift or Laedere. I had told him where to go to find the Throat, so the place I could figure to begin looking was the Throat. If I managed to beat them there I decided that I would just wait until I saw them and ask what took them so long, no big deal.
But... when I finally made it to the Throat Rift was already there and he was standing face to face with Zenobia and Gaucho. I sighed and I began my descent. I landed next to Rift and folded my wings against my sides, doing my best to hide the grimace as I folded my wing that had been injured in the god fight. "Sorry." I murmured to Rift. "I had to land because my wing was bothering me then I couldn't find you or Laedere." That was a believable little white lie, wasn't it? It wasn't entirely untrue. "I'm glad I told you were to go so you didn't get too lost." And I reached out to bump my muzzle against his shoulder if he let just to show that we were on good terms to Gaucho.
"Hi Gaucho." I couldn't help it, I smiled warmly at the sultan then I looked at his daughter. "Zenobia. Laedere and I found Rift in the Threshold and we invited him come home with us."
"Talk."
aud pixel!