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Night or day the skittish, bright yellow wind b'alam preferred to stay inside a cave. At night, her fears weren't nearly as bad as during the day and she could almost pretend there was a cave above her head with a whole lot of little glow worms dotting the ceiling. Almost. When her knight had business to attend, which was rare and he spent a lot of time looking after her, Canaria had to look after herself. Andrei had dropped her off at the main cave to mingle while he took care of some business.

The main cave was logically the biggest and tallest cave in the complex. It sometimes left her with that feeling of falling into nothing, and with Andrei away it was best not to tempt an episode. Canaria moved around the edges until she found a suitable nitch to tuck into. It was small, well covered, and open at the front. She could see out and mingle if anyone came near wanted to. Her bright coloring made her quite easy to see even in the dark cave. The yellow female settled down and started to groom her feathered wings contentedly.

Canaria had managed to get herself settled and calmed with some grooming when the unexpected happened. One of the dark tribe approached her. Her knight usually protected her if they had evil intents. She knew some dark tribe didn't like having others here. Slowly she looked up expecting to find fangs in her face. There was plenty of space between them, and she hadn't sounded mad. Canaria blinked slowly at the dark one with glowing eyes in front of her.

"Oh. My Knight has wings likes yours. I'm not from around here, I'm a blood giver." She stumbled over the words a bit, trying to get them out in a hurry. It didn't occur to her to simply tell the other that she was a different tribe. Canaria glanced awkwardly about. Now she realized that if this nahtil got mad at her, she was effectively trapped. But this was the only place she felt comfortable. What would she do? Cry for help? Would anyone but her knight care?

Seeing her company lay down, she realized how tense she had been. She took a deep breath and ruffled her wings to relax the muscles. "I'm sorry. I don't mean to seem rude. My name's Canaria. I think my wings are different because I'm a different tribe." The yellow nahtil tried to suppress the shudder that ran through her body at the mention of going outside.

"I can rarely leave the caves, and only at night." And only with her Knight, but she didn't add that. "No, I'm afraid not. There was some errands he had to do. He is Andrei." She offered the dark nahtil a shy smile. "No fears, you didn't offend. I may just be overly cautious." She glanced uneasily as the nahtil asked where she was from. "Outside," she whispered. "Andrei found me shortly after I awoke and brought me here." She'd never regretted it. This was her home. Her safe haven.