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The next two weeks passed with less excitement than that particular night but still cheerfully enough. Adonai soon got over his fear of Cindy in her new shape, and both he and Aliya had fun with their new friend. Ulani, for her part, was glad to have her - besides having someone new to talk to, she found the girl something of a curiosity - she had met someone with wings, and someone with a tail before, but Cindy was the first person she had met with both wings and a tail.

It was probably afternoon when Donovan came back a bit (or a lot) richer than before, though it was hard to tell with that spelled bag of his. He was none worse for wear, though he did get a quite a run for his money some of them thought it was a bright idea to try and steal the horse or the tack off the horse (or both for all he knew).

He deicded he would have to put himself at the tender mercies of his ecentric horse loving cousin and re-take lessons on fighting on horse. Otherwise he was fine.

Cindy looked up from where she was sitting on the couch making last minute notes. She smiled a bit as she closed it up and slide off the couch. The young girl studied herself for a moment, this was going to be odd, but Donovan should be use to it by now, she thought to herself.

"I'm right here," she called back, "I'm coming."

Ulrich came and took the reins from Donovan so that the man could relax a bit. "Well," he said to Donovan while looking over the horse, patting it down and stroking it a bit, "I'm glad you made it back all right. I wonder if perhaps you shouldn't take someone with you next time, though - there's safety in numbers, and two can be as stealthy as one, after all."

His brow furrowed slightly as he ran his hands over the horse's flanks. "You poor beast," he murmured; and he untied the saddle and slid it to the ground.


Adonai scampered over to Cindy and giggled up at her. "Cinee Ada here!" he said in a sing-song voice. "Cinee s'ow you Ada you no-booh?" He crawled up onto the couch and stood on it so that he would be a little bit closer to her height. "S'ow you Ada pretty fwowers, wight?" he giggled.

"If I do, that person is going to have to be taught how to ride a horse," Donovan muttered.

There was no way in hell he would take one of his family members, they would see more to exploit than he and his father would drive him insane before three days was out.

"None of the Winters ever needed to ride a horse, and Tao's form makes it easy for anyone to ride her... that and she has a gentle temperment... and the sense of a spoiled pet."

"No," Cindy shook her head, "She's back home with the rest of the family."

She wondered if she should go out to greet the rest of them, and musing on this Cindy wandered into the kitchen to see if Ulani was still there. Though she was sure, Ulani had gone to greet Donovan. It was.. just a bit akward for her since she never not claimed Donovan as her father, but she didn't call him daddy at all.

"I'm sure you would be more comfortable going home, too," Ulani nodded. "I know the feeling. Would you like me to let Cindy know you're here? She'll need to get her things together ..."

Ulrich smiled to himself as he walked the horse a bit. He knew Ulani wouldn't say anything about Cindy's growing, he just hoped that he would be able to be in the same room as Donovan when the man saw her.


Adonai followed Cindy into the kitchen the same way he had been half-following her around for the entire two weeks she had been there (except of course the first few days after she had grown).

"Mama ou'side," he told her with a giggle. "See go 'side see you ada!"

"Please," Donovan answered.

He figured at this point that going home would be the best thing for him.

"I also need to leave a few things with you."

Rather several pouches he managed to get a hold of to them.