When the fire's at my feet again, and the vultures all start circling
They're whispering you're out of time
but still I rise
Oh. My. Gods.
There is a giant turtle.
LIVING IN HELOVIA.
Gawen thinks he might start crying because this is the coolest thing, hands down, that he has ever seen in his entire life. Then he chides himself because the turtle isn't a thing it's a he. And if Gawen wants to befriend the most awesome-est creature on the planet, he better be respectful.
This is the farthest out from the Edge that the battle hawk has ever been, but any fears dissipate with the excitement of a magical creature. Anyway it's not like anybody could complain, there was a huge hoard of horses just standing around. Danger schmanger, he thought to himself and went bounding off towards the tree. The turtle's words and everybody else moving forward to put their own things on the boughs inspired him to mimic them, slipping his green bracelet off his little leg and hanging it joyously on a fresh-smelling bough.
And if he turned and beamed idiotically brightly at the turtle, well...nobody had to know how desperate the little hawk was to make a cool friend. They were all distracted in their own ways anyway.
Gawen gives his bracelet, an item he received at birth
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