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Long Shadows glided silently on a cool current of air towards Half Price's station. He was just returning from a real scavenging, rather than stealing something, where he had searched for something he could give as a gift to his new friend, Fancy. Said gift was held safely in his talons, a small thimble. Shadows had no idea what it was for, but though Fancy might like it. He was proud of his find. 'Maybe posing as a scavenger won't be so hard.' He thought.
The setting sun was just barley visible behind a wall of clouds, an explosion of colors broke through as the sun traveled down the sky in it's daily ritual. Shadows watched it briefly before it finished it's job of slipping away, letting night fall slowly behind it.

By the time he reached Fancy's nest it was dark. Like she said, there was a candle light near it and he found his way to it easily. He landed softly next to the candle. Shadows quickly preened himself before calling out quietly "Hello? Tickle Your Fancy? It's me, Long Shadows."

The aroma from the tea smelled wonderful. "I haven't had tea in a long time, it smells great." Shadows said, and then bowed in reply to Fancy's curtsy before walking over to sit by the her. "I brought you something, by the way." Shadows held up the a thimble, slightly smaller than the one Fancy already had. It shined brightly in the light of the fire as he held it up for her to take. "I can see you already have one, but I'm sure it will be useful to you." The slate-colored pidge finished with a small smile. Shadows was all for useful things and thought that they would be more appreciated than a trinket that would only collect dust.

Shadows let his happiness outside of him in the form of a smile. She said she loved it! "I'm glad you like it." He said, still smiling. The slate-colored pidge watched and waited patiently, still brimming with joyful feelings while Fancy poured the tea. He accepted the thimble full of hot tea with a 'Thank you' and took a small sip to make sure he didn't burn his tongue. It tasted just as marvelous as it smelled! "This is wonderful." Shadows said enthusiastically.

Shadows listened quietly to Fancy's tale of her parents, nodding and silently sipping the delicious tea as she spoke. It was rather relaxing to sit and chat with Fancy, as well as learn more about her. He decided he should tell her about his parents as well, "My father was a doctor and my mother was an entertainer." Shadows sipped the tea again and spoke softly "They're both retired as well." The thief didn't want to go into detail as to how they went into retirement and ruin the friendly atmosphere. "My mother loved to tell me stories as much as I loved listening." He finished on a lighter note with a smile.

Shadows nodded, "They were both great." he said and took another drink of tea. He pondered the idea of having his own family. Having a son or daughter and teaching them everything he knew sounded exciting. The slate pidge nodded once more, "I'd like to start a family of my own too sometime." Despite his confidence, the idea of him being a father made him still made him a tad unsure. "I'm sure you'll be a wonderful mother for your chicks of course." Shadows smiled. Fancy would make a great mother, she was sweet and had plenty of experience taking care of chicks being a nanny and all.

Shadows was very flattered by her complement and gave a "Thank you" and a warm smile. He nodded at her second statement, "We do need more of it. Especially with this divided state." The slate ruffled his feathers a little, making himself a bit more comfortable after they settled down. "I feel strongly that Half Price needs to either fix up this mess himself or step down and let some other pidge do it." He frowned, the thought of their current leader and what he had done, or lack of, for their flock irritated him. "It's disgraceful of him to let the flock fall into this condition. Sick pidge and chicks on the poorer side that can't fend for themselves are suffering the worst from all of this." Shadows finished and calmed himself down. He didn't want to get too riled up on the touchy topic. "What do you think about all this?" Shadows asked, curious to hear her opinion.

It pained Shadows to see Fancy frown like that, the thought of her unhappy made him unhappy as well. But they couldn't just sweep the subject under a rug, so to speak, it was too serious a matter to be ignored like that. Shadows nodded at what Fancy said. "We should do something about it. Everypidge in this flock, needs to, too. Things were great when his father was the leader, I bet even some of the other wealthy pidge wish it was still like it was under his leadership. Undivided." The slate colored pidge's mood turned quite serious. Shadows moved to the end of the nest with Fancy to gaze over at the other side of the tracks. "If he lived over there for a day and saw what it was like, I'm sure he'd change his ways."

Shadows nodded once more, that sounded like a good plan. "I hope he listens to reason. From what I've heard he's a proud, but nieve pidge." The slate closed his eyes and shook his head showing disaprovement towards the leader. "But we're sure to figure something out." Shadows flashed a smal smile at Fancy.

He was however caught-off guard at her complement and blinked in surprise. Nobody in the band complemented him regularly or anything, he just was what he was. Some of them respected him, others thought he his ways were soft. He felt a pang of regret, he had lied to Fancy and said he was a scavenger. The little lie he told when he first met her might grow bigger than he thought. How would he tell her? What if she thought he stole the thimble he found for her? She would hate him! Shadows shook his head, "You're much kinder than I am, plus you were willing to help as well." He pointed out. "And you're beautiful, too." Shadows blurted out the last part. It was almost as out of the blue as Fancy's comment had been. But it was the truth, and Shadows promised to himself he would be completely honest with Fancy from then on.