Chapter 3 – Winging it

In the end the Samalins had decided to take only one horse for which their daughter to ride on and to carry their belongings…or rather one pony (lets see if anyone knows who im talking about) by pony years she was barely half way through her life, perhaps twenty six or twenty seven if she were human, however age didn't matter much, this animal, this friend, this family member had been the reason that Daine had gotten out of snowsdale alive, it only seemed fitting that she go back with her. Cloud was once again travelling with them. (YAY!)

As they trudged along all of them thinking silently Numair posed a question he had, had in his mind since his family had left the palace, and this had been quite a while, they had already walked through the lower city disguised as commoners, granted commoners with an extremely violent and protective pony but commoners all the same, so by now Numair feet were starting to hurt a little bit so he dared to ask his extremely on edge wife the question that he had decided to leave until there was less of a chance of his decapitation.

"Magelet…how do you expect us to walk all the way to snowsdale, especially with a temperamental pony and a touchy almost three year old?" he asked his wife rapidly yanking his hand back as the 'temperamental' cloud went to nip his fingers.

Daine turned to her husband and smiled, "We're going to wing it of course", Numair looked at his wife with a confused expression on his face, as Daine began to pull off her outer clothes and tuck them into the back packs Numair understood what she meant, "What about cloud?" he asked, Daine pointed to the pendant that cloud wore around her neck, "All I have to do is spark it with a little magic and poof! Instant wings"

Numair smiled at the woman opposite him, "You are the most amazing thing on this planet" he said then he leaned across cloud and their child took her face in his hands and began to kiss her profusely.

They were interrupted by a "Eukk mwummy awnd dwaddy awre kisseringgg!" They pulled away and Daine smiled at her child and tweaked her nose, do not worry Sara trust me before you know it you will be doing it as well".

"Hwow swoon?" asked the little girl curiously

"When you are forty five and have undergone ten years of marriage," replied Numair curtly

"Owh" said Sara as though it was a perfectly normal response, she then gave it no more thought because mummy and daddy were asking her to show them her special trick of turning into something, this time they wanted a birdie…a birdie like the ones on the palace grounds, Sara thought for a minuet then became a small owl chick who hooted in delight at this amazing new game.

Her parents quickly copied her after giving cloud her wings and they were in the sky together, they would be at snowsdale now within the day, only later Daine would point out that they should not have been owls purely because it had been day time and owls were nocturnal so that may have drawn attention to them.

Numair dry reply had been that the people would have been more likely to notice the large flying pony rather then the family of owls that were (shockingly so) flying in the day time.

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