Note: In this chapter, Dove's in another room, this time with a window. (There HAS to be more rooms than the three we always see with a window, being Raven's room, Starfire's room, and the main room.)

Note 2: It's a little short, but I wanted the next part to have it's own chapter. (I personally think it's very interesting and exciting.)

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Unforeseen Surprises

Chapter 5: Settling In to a New Life

Raven and Dove went to the meal times with the rest of the team, but beyond that, they never left Dove's room, as it came to be, and trained for the next two days. In that time, Dove also found Sieara, exhausted and weak, but alive, on the beach and Raven helped Dove heal her.

Sieara was a bit larger than most doves - Dove said that was just one of her qualities - and Raven could have sworn she saw that Sieara's tail was longer than normal with purple tips before they vanished and the bird flew onto Dove's shoulder.

"Sieara had a spell put on her when she was only 2 months old by Srentha," Dove explained quickly. "Azar's magic and all... It's amazing what he could teach me in ten minutes or so..." Dove sighed at a brief flashback of him teaching her a simple illusion spell, and she giggled at the memory of his wild, cerelean blue hair glowing with a green-golden tint. "Now Sieara's just smore intelligent than most doves... Almost like a raven if you ask me. She even glows if she's near anything Azarathian-magical. Srentha put a spell on her that allows her to sense magic and track it, plus many more things he never got the chance to show me..."

Since then, the dove never flew off of Dove's shoulder except to sleep.

Dove also remembered a few things she had brought from Azarath and hidden in a forest near the city in a box. Raven used this as an oppurtunity to help Dove with her levitation problems, but it ended in disaster; Dove nearly knocked herself out trying to land in the forest between two trees, and only making it into the first. Raven helped Dove carry the box into the tower, both girls using telekinesis, and Dove showed Raven everything in it.

The first thing Dove took out was a small golden statue of a dove from Azarath. The base curved out like the bottom of a wine glass and almost fit in Dove's palm. The bird on it had its wings outspread and the wings were so detailed, the individual feathers were seen clearly. The tail was fanned, making the bird seem like it would soar right from Dove's hand as she held it on her open palm. Raven asked why she had it and Dove said it relaxed her and made her think about happier times. Then she took out a mirror similar to Raven's own with an almost golden rim carved to looked more like wings. Raven's astonishment made Dove giggle a bit, and she put it on the bedside table. Next Dove pulled out a book with care and put it next to her.

"My mother used to read it to me all the time... Let's not dwell on the subject..."

A few more books were beneath it, and then Dove took out a journal.

"For poetry, not agenda or whatever else," Dove explained quietly. She sighed, then took out the rest of the box's contents; another small pile of books, a few different potion and spell ingredients, and a bag of dove seed for Sieara.

"All of these things each bring back a different memory... I just wish I wasn't in such a rush to get out of there and had said good-bye to Srentha..."

"At least you weren't killed by-"

"I know... But it still hurts to know I'll never see him again..."

"You seem to talk about Srentha a lot. And why does that name sound familiar...?"

"You lived in the temple, right? He was the high-magistrate's grandson."

"I didn't even know Coman had a child, let alone a grandchild."

"Me neither, until Srentha showed up in my life."

"Interesting... We should probably start setting up your room now."

Dove nodded and picked up the books before setting them on the shelf. Then she took the statue and the ingredients and put them on the shelf, the ingredients on the middle shelf and the statue on the shelf next to the books.

"Is that all?"

Dove nodded.

"Any ideas?"

"On what?"

"Setting up your room to be your room."

"Um... Yeah, actually."

They ended up making the walls and ceiling darker and Dove said she might need another shelf.

"I always used to read a new book almost every week," Dove told Raven. "I love reading..."

Raven looked at Dove, half in curiosity, half in understanding.

They seemed more similar every day.

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