It was a nice change of pace to have a fledgling that wasn't fussy when they couldn't taken them with them when they left to attend to their duties. It wasn't often that they denied her request to come with them through the day, only on certain circumstance; such as when the prisoners were taken from the prison to have their monthly check with the healers, or when the new classes were indicted on the training field and over half of it filled with younglings who didn't know either end of a sword but still knew how to fight for themselves or when the choir was trying to recover a large end of the Pantheon that fledglings had no place being.

So, it did come as a surprise when the little fledgling had curled both of her hands around the oldest archangel's left hand and refused to let go despite his gentle attempts to get her to.

"Please, little one, I will only be away for a few hours at most. You will hardly even know that I am missing."

"No, big brother, please don't leave me!"

"I would take you with me, but today is not a good day, too many inexperienced hands gaining swords is no place a fledgling should be lest you get unintentionally harmed."

She tugged on his hand incessantly, "No! Please don't go, please big brother! I don't want you to go! Please!"

He knelt, cupping her chin in his free hand and lifted her head so their eyes may meet, it was concerning that she was so upset about him leaving and he loath to leaver her in such a state but this was something he could not miss even if he truly wanted to for her sake.

"Will you tell me why?"

When she shook her head and bit her lip, he heaved a sigh and stood, gently prying her fingers from his left hand. Her eyes watered and she instead latched onto the right.

"I can't help you if you won't tell me how, little one."

He managed to pry her fingers off his right hand and turned to step away, but she jumped and latched onto the bottom of his shirt, little tears glistening in her eyes.

"Please big brother! Pleeease! Don't go! Don't leave me!"

"I need to know what is wrong so I can help you, little one.", his fingers curled around hers and tugged them free, kneeling one last time, letting her fingers curl back around his, "It pains me to see you like this."

"I c-cant! Please! Please don't leave me! I don' want to be alone! Please!"

"I just can't bring you today, tomorrow is fine again, I just can't today."

"Pleease big brother, Pleeease!"

"Why do you not want to be alone? You like being able to run around wherever you can when you're not with us."

She rubbed at her watery eyes with the back of her other hand, the one clutching at his fingers not budging in the slightest, and she looked back up at him pitifully.

"B'cause todays the day!"

"The day of what, little one?"

"W-When we went in! W-We went in and it got so dark! T-There was no one else there! I-It was just us! Please don't let me be stuck in the dark again big brother! Please don't leave me!"

It was heartbreaking, of course she would remember the day the Choir Angels had sealed themselves into the Pantheon, and it was hard to think of what it must have been like for a small fledgling as she had been. Having just lost her master, and then seeing the war build up until it broke all around them, it would have been terrifying to anyone.

He wrapped his arm around her, just under her bottom, and stood back up again but this time he brought her with him.

"I will never leave you alone, my little fledgling, never. You may come then, but stay at my side, alright?"

She didn't grant him a verbal response, simply nodded quickly, hiding her went cheeks in his neck. He rubbed his hand in soothing circles over her back as he stepped out into the garden around them and opened his wings. Their flight had been in silence, the fledgling still clutching to him, not wanting him to let go. And he wouldn't, not until he was asked to, of it was needed for him to do something that required his hands or arms, and even then, it was to only pass her over to another until he could take her back up again.

His Chief Power looked confused to see him with a fledgling attached to his front, clearly having been told ahead of time of her absence on this particular day, and he fell into step with him quickly as he walked to the front of the new class.

"Sir, I thought you said she wasn't going to come."

"She wasn't. Today is just a bad day."

It warmed him to see his Power look so concerned for the fledgling, it was obvious she had stolen their hearts, it wasn't hard for her to do to most everyone she met.

"Is everything alright?"

Michael tucked her further under his chin, against his chest, and whispered in reply, "It is the anniversary of when they locked themselves in their self-made prison."

He nodded, looking to his little friend sadly, "I can't imagine that was a good memory."

"It may have been more damning then any of us thought. She is terrified of being alone today."

They stood at the front of the line, just behind Titus and Raguel as they finished up their explaining of how things worked, and they both turned to hand it over to the Commander and their eyes widened much like their Chief's had at the sight of their little friend.

"Is everything okay with the Baby Power?"

The others behind them watched curiously as the Commander whispered something in response and just managed to get the fledgling, he was holding to move to the Head Power's arms instead of his own. Nisroc cradled her close, something they would not have expected from the legendary Power commander, and he turned away from them to see to the other classes who were much more accustomed at seeing the fledgling then the new class was.

Michael clapped his hands and their attention shifted.

Once Titus and Raguel had taken over, and the Commander had left them with their teachers, they spotted him take his fledgling back from the Chief Power. He had promised that he would not let her go, not for long, and he didn't make promises he couldn't keep.