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It was a rare moment Owle had. The events of the broken Carter City had just resolved...she had rediscovered Rand and Verde, but not yet learned of the threat of the Forgotten's shades. To make up for leaving Rand alone for so long, she was taking him and Verde for a walk through town.

Rand was in sensory overload mode, looking at everyone that passed them on the street, pointing at each and asking "Who? Who? Who?" Only to be distracted by a shop window, and run over, forgetting completely that his mother wasn't as small or good at pushing through crowds as he was. Before Owle could even catch up to him, something else had caught his eye and he was off again.

Understandably, the woman was panting when she ran into Subo, Rand having spied the child who looked so much like him.

Owle knew that she had met this woman before, and that she liked donuts. But no name came to her mind.

Rand, on the other hand, was practically twitching with excitement. "Who?" he demanded of Aethilind. "You're like me!"

Aethelind looked up from his scrutinizing of the items in the window when a someone ran up next to him. "Who...?" Tilting his head to the side, he blinked his large blue eyes and thought for a moment. "Lind!" he responded. "You...?"

His eyes flicked to the girl with bright red hair who was walking towards the shop, waving slightly.

Subo blinked and snapped out of the trance she has slipped in while watching Lind stare at the shiny stuff. She rubbed her eyes, thinking she was seeing double. But no, two nearly identical children were standing in front of the store. She looked around slowly, and saw Owle, someone she recognized slightly. "'Lo."

Shayna instantly recognized the boy as being a Herald. She had never met the boy before, but she knew. There was another one almost identical to him in the shop talking with him. She smiled and waved back to the boy and she remembered when she first met Taka. She had been so exited that the two of them had looked almost exactly alike. But with memories of metting Taka came memories of the storm. That one storm that The two girls were trapped in once by themselves.

A strong shiver sent shooting down her spine and she remembered how much it hurt back then. Now, pain wasn't all so new. She could handle getting paper cuts, and bruises. She could take slamming her finger in the door by accident. Back then she would screem like all hell broke loose for even the slightest things.

Deciding quickly to get her mind off the subject she ventured into the shop and streatched her wings from where they had previously layed scrunched against her back to keep her warm. She browsed through the things scattered about and eventually stopped to admire a ring that lay behind a glass display at the back of the room.

"Yeah yeah," Rand said, nodding knowingly. "Mommy told me. There's a person who looks just like you, hiding behind all the mirrors and stuff. And when you aren't in front of a mirror, they go off and do secret things, like stick their tongues out at you when your back is turned. And sometimes, if you're in front of a magic mirror, they can switch places with you!"

"I'm Owle," Owle said, taking the hand and shaking it. "I don't remember where I found Rand...how he came to me. I don't think...I don't think he's related by blood, though. He's an angel, and I, well...I'm not."

"Uh-uhn," Rand agreed, shaking his head. "There was this one kid, and his mirror boy switched places with him. He got in lots of trouble for it, even after he managed to get out of the mirror world. Cause mirror boys like playing all sorts of pranks, cause they know they won't be the ones in trouble."

"Yeah..." Owle replied. "And a lot less safe." She glanced inside the shop, at the red haired woman with fiery wings, but couldn't think why she seemed so familiar.

"Mmm..." Rand thought long and hard, peering into the mirror. "Well, it's got to be just like our world, only backwards." The little kid nodded wisely. "Like, people walk backwards, and they think backwards, so they say goodbye instead of hello and things."

"Yeah," Owle replied, grinning back. "Though oftentimes the same philosophy has made more people look after me..."

"Maybe," Rand said thoughtfully. "I've never seen the back of my head in a mirror."

"Yeah..." Owle answered. "Makes me feel guilty though, you know? Everyone's out to protect me...I can do stuff, too!"

"Hmm..." Rand tried himself, but it obviously wasn't working. "I know! I'll turn around, and you can tell me! And then I'll tell you."

Owle giggled a little at the two of them. "Eh, they know...they just wave it off, tell me its alright, its what they want to do...better I just accept it." She leaned in closer to Subo, dropping her voice. "You know, I should never have told him that story. He spent half the day in front of the Firebrand's mirror, trying to get through it."