I woke at the normal time the next morning. Liz was still snoring, so I had the mirror all to myself. I took advantage of my extra time, and tried a few different hairstyles I had gotton out of Witch Weekly. Then I chose to wair my hair up in a large clip and gave Liz the mirror, finally.

After we were ready, we raced each other to the Great Hall, only running into two people. We found Raken, and, him being the only person there, sat down by him. He and I exchanged 'the morning ritual' (Glaring at each other until Liz said to stop), and ate a quick breakfast. Then Raken got up and started for the exit. Liz and I exchanged glances and followed him.

The others had left the message with Raken that they had already left and would meet us there, and so we snuck around towards the forest, saying we were visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, when confronted by a passing prefect.

We arrived at Jonathan's cottage and went in, greeting him. Liz went straight back to see Sharra, but Jonathan held Raken and I back. "Remember what I told you?" he asked.

Raken and I nodded solemly. "Ok," he said, "You go get your links and get out there. Cerah, I want you to try and talk to every single thing you see that doesn't try to, err, eat you, of something. Raken, make sure your Skylight doesn't try to eat any more of those poisenous toads again."

Raken nodded with a slight grin, and we both went back to get our creatures. I led Kilst out of his room and down the hall, being joined a few moments later by Raken, a large firey bird perched on his shoulder.

I recognized it as a Pheonix. 'Hello,' she said politely, with a nod of her rather elegant head.

'Hello. You're Skylight, I'm guessing?' I asked.

'Yes, that I am,' Skylight said, 'Raken here was just telling me all about you, if you are Raycerah.'

Raken, to my surprise, blushed madly and hushed his bird. 'Oops, I wasn't supposed to tell her that, was I?' Skylight asked with a giggle.

Raken blushed again and murmered something under his breath, but by then we had reached the main room, and he opened the door quickly and hurried in.

"Ok, then. You'll be off?" Jonathan inquired. Raken nodded and rushed out the door. Kilst and I followed.

We walked in silence for a while, not seeing, or saying anything. Suddenly, Raken cried out and stepped back.

He had stepped on the tail of what looked like a large baby ferret. 'Aww, how cute!' Kilst said, sticking his face up next to the Jarvey's.

"Back off, you moron!" The Jarvey snapped. Kilst backed up, eyes wide in surprise. 'It talks like a human!' he exclaimed.

I grinned, 'I noticed.' I kneeled down to look eye-to-eye to it. 'Are you lost?' I asked.

'Yes, I can't find my family,' the creature replied politely as it said, aloud. "No! Why would I tell you, anyways?"

'Did you get seperated from them?' I asked.

'No, they left me here. Mum and Dad said something about being a vegetarian. I think they think it's weird that I don't like gnomes..'

'Aww, you poor thing! Here, come with me, You can stay at Jonathan's until you're big and strong,' I suggested.

'But that's just it. Mum said that, since I don't eat gnomes or other meat, I won't be strong enough to live in "the wild"'

'Well, then you can stay there permanently. With Kilst, and Skylight, and everyone else. You'll be taken care of, and fed well, and never have to worry about any gnomes again.'

'Really?' The little Jarvey looked up at me.

'Really and truly. Now, let's keep looking around. I'm supposed to practice talking to as many animals as I can. Then, we can take you back to your new home, and everything will be ok,' I reassured him.

'Ok, well, my name is Ender,' Ender said.

'Ok, Ender, let's go!' I picked him up and put him in my bag, where he curled up and promptly went to sleep.

"You're taking it with you?" Raken asked, looking at Ender in disgust, "After what it was saying!?"

"You would think you might have been bright enough to realize, you being in Ravenclaw and all, that the words coming out of it's mouth were not what it was actually saying," I snapped, stroking the Jarvey's soft fur. Kilst nodded agreement.

Raken frowned and said, 'Whatever.'

'I apologize for him. You made a good point about words not being exactly right, of whatever you said. See, Raken here-'

"Sky!" Raken said loudly.

'Oh, yeah. Can't tell you that, sorry.'

I nodded. 'I understand. I pity you, having to put up with him.'

'It's an interesting relationship. Almost like being married. Speaking of that-' Raken cleared his throat loudly. 'Oops. I'm doing it again, aren't I?'

Raken simply nodded.

We only saw a few birds and such before Raken decided that it was getting late. I noticed that I was hungry and then that, since the stars were slready beginning to come out, that I had missed lunch, so I had right to be hungry. We took a shortcut back to the cottage and quickly explained to Jonathan about Ender.

"How interesting," Jonathan said, inspecting Ender, who stood completely still, looking up at him. "A vegetarian Jarvey. I've never heard of a situation like this before. What did you say his name was?"

"Ender," I answered abruptly. Jonathan nodded.

"Well, let's see.. would he be all right in Kilst stall? It seems to be big enough for the both of them."

'What do you think, Kilst?' I asked.

'Sounds good,' Kilst replied, 'He sounds nice when he's speaking my language.'

I smiled, 'Ender, do you have any objections?'

'No, sounds good to me,' I saw Jonathan and Raken both flinch, and guessed whatever he had spoken aloud was not very nice.

"Ok, they both agree," I told them.

"Great! Let's get them into their room and you two can hurry back to the castle. The others have already left."

After Kilst and Ender were asleep in room 409, I ran back to the castle, proud that I had memorized the way there.

And that's when I was spotted.

A/N: Oooohh! What happens next? Who's sees her! Well, you'll have to wait until I have time to write the next chapter to find out!