[Hawk pauses, holding the steaming teacup, and watches her for a second. Her youth is showing again. He sets the cup in her hands, and then steps off to a shelf at the back of the sitting room.]
You lived in a castle? Is it amiss to wonder just who you were, then? Fifteen winters and such skills at arms as yours mean you were trained from an early age, I'm guessing.
[Finding what he's looking for, he comes back to the hearth and puts a carved wooden figurine (http://tide-mammoth.com/wood/WN378L.JPG), small enough to fit in his palm, down beside her.]
I got it on good authority you ought to get your friends gifts when it's their cocoonday. So... I don't know how it is where you're from, but it seems to me the dragon stands for good things. Prosperity and long life. Apt for a birthday, perhaps.
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You lived in a castle? Is it amiss to wonder just who you were, then? Fifteen winters and such skills at arms as yours mean you were trained from an early age, I'm guessing.
[Finding what he's looking for, he comes back to the hearth and puts a carved wooden figurine (http://tide-mammoth.com/wood/WN378L.JPG), small enough to fit in his palm, down beside her.]
I got it on good authority you ought to get your friends gifts when it's their cocoonday. So... I don't know how it is where you're from, but it seems to me the dragon stands for good things. Prosperity and long life. Apt for a birthday, perhaps.