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And after the ladies came and left, the old woman reached up to her face... She pulled off the mask of age, instead, by magic, became lithe and light. With eyes that twinkled like cheerful stars in the sky, she smiled. Her ears twitched as she wrapped up shop, which wasn't even there.

The sound of the harp rippled through the room in waves. Lu woke up early that morning, staring out the section of misplaced curtain. Not even sunrise. The room was quiet and dark as she liked it, but she heard the enchanting music coming from outside her sanctuary. Almost blindly, she sat up and began to tiredly shuffle in that direction.

The carpet was surprisingly clean, she noticed, as she never even looked up as she shuffled. Her eyes didnt even function properly during this hour. Who would be making music at four in the morning?

Must be the neighborhood psychopath.

Almost sounds like a beginner's interpretation of some Zelda song... she mentally muttered as her exhausted, and slightly perturbed, form reached the living room. Slowly creaking her head up to its normal daytime position, her eyes fell upon the harp's player.

Gyre.

No, she was not normally tall enough to even reach the harp's strings, but the ingenious baby was so determined to grasp the strings that she took books from the lowers shelves of bookcases (and a few light phone books) and stacked them so that she could reach them. Faustus, the sleeping lionlike Sunchild, was found nearby. He must've helped.

"Oh my..." Lu whispered, in utter shock. Gyre never turned around. It neever occured to her that her falcon child could have such musical talent, let alone be able to create a recognizable melody. Lu had played many Zelda games for hours on end in the house. Gyre must've memorized parts of one of the song enough to replecate it as best she could on the harp.

Not wanting to interupt in the slightest, Lu sat down on the carpet, forgetting all about the other bird child who went missing last night...

Gyre sat up from her seat at the harp, watching her mother frantically search for her missing baby brother. Gyre shrugged, seeing as that was taken care of. Her ears perked when she heard the doorbell ring. Faustus sat up and grabbed the child by the scruff of her shirt ot carry her to the door.

Gyre flailed at the doorknob, eventually (meaning, after a good half hour of constant flailing) getting the door to open. Upon the porch sat a wonderfully wrapped gift. Gyre blinked at it as Faustus set her down. He trotted out and started to push the gift in with his great nose. Gyre clapped, cheering him on as her mother ransacked the house, searching for Lucius.

Gyre immediately began to tear open the gift, narrowly missing shredding the card. Faustus gentely scooped it up in his teeth and sat it down on the couch. He laid down next tot he falcon child as shreds of paper went flying...

"Ehh?" was the sound uttered from the falcon baby's lips. What was this? A crystal?



And what in the world did it do? Gyre's infant mind tried to wrap itself around the crystal as she picked it up to examine it. Smelled okay, and it was a pretty color. She shook it, hard, as Faustus watched. Could poke out an eye with that...

A bit disappointed with no reaction from the crystal, she did what any baby in times like this would do.

She put it in her mouth.

"Bleh!" she squealed and spat it out. Tasted very bad. Very, very bad. Never eat crystal again. Perhaps Lu could do something with it? When she was finished freaking out about missing baby brother, that is.

Harp time! Taking the crystal with her teeth instead of tongue, she crawled back tot he musical instrument. Lu was bust outside, screaming, but she didnt care. All there was in the world was harp. Faustus used his muzzle to push the baby back up onto her stack of books to lay it again.

Gyre let the crystal fall gently to the carpet, mentally labeling it, "To figure out later."

"Fwoggee!" came a happy squeal as the falcon child crawled after the frog. It croated and bounced along as if nothing was chasing it, and that excited Gyre even further. Lu noticed her semi-fascination with the crystal and had fastened it into a stand of sorts. Gyre had come to always sit somewhere near the stand to gaze at the crystal.

The frog had wandered off into the other room, possibly to be caught by some other member of the house. It was treated well, though, and always had the option of sitting near the backyard pool. Gyre crawled back to the harp and sat upon her "throne" of sorts. (which was made previously using phonebooks and other assorted reading materials)

The harp was a pleasing sight in the room, and Gyre had recently only wanted to sleep near it. Her nest of a bed was temporarily moved to this new location to be near both the crystal and the harp.

The light shone down through the crystal, causing it to sparkle. It was a beautiful amberlike color, which almost matched Lucius' eyes. To Lu's knowledge, the crystal didn't do much of anything, but she couldn't help but be curious about it.

Gyre stared at it awhile until turning her attentions to the harp, plucking out a few choice notes.