Once back at her house ginger carefully carried the injured, man to the spare bedroom and cleaned the dirt from his face and wounds. He had a slightly darker completion than ginger and his skin was not kissed by the sun as Ginger's was. The man's golden long hair wildly framed his face and shoulders. Ginger quick stood up feeling embarrassed from staring at the man's face. Ginger stepped out on to her baloney and blew a loud whistle. She gazed over the garden and watched the butterflies flutter And the sparrow dive for insects. A shadow blocked the sun and the garden went silent all life hid form the arrival from the sky. A large Kahu with many old battle wounds landed on the branch next to ginger. "You called my lady?"
"Glider, how many times do I have to tell you I am no lady" ginger scolded
"To me and my squadron you are our lady, because you protect this land we shall only sever you."
"We don't have time for this, in sector 5 we located and retrieve a wounded guardian. I want you to search sector 5 for any more wounded or abnormal activity. I want hourly reports."
"Of course my lady, we will be your eyes in the sky." Glider bowed honourably.
"And do not hesitate to kill on sight." Glider squawked with shock at gingers words "the wounds are from a pest. I believe class rat or stoat. Whatever they were planning they wanted him alive." Ginger said sadly.
"You word is our command" gilder dropped from the branch and took to the sky.
"Fly strong, Gilder." Ginger shouted goodbye.
Ginger returned to her room and mixed up a paste made from kawakawa leaves. She redressed his wounds and produced from her closet a white shirt and forest green pants made from cloth that she had scrounged from the rubble of the old farmhouse. She placed the clothes on her side table and sat down at her desk. Ginger wrote a report about the resent advent and sent it by urgent Tui mail to the surrounding posts. She also sent glen a letter asking if he was missing any troops. Ginger sent Sam to the Morepork night air force to give them the same orders she gave Glider.
Ginger changed her clothes to her battle armour made kauri leaves and snail shells it also has an cape made from Sam's old wing feathers which made her able to glide to safety If she or Sam gets in trouble. She attaches to her belt a short sword made from bone that has carvings along the blade.
Ginger softly glides from her balcony and softly lands by the rubble of the farmhouse. Looked around she knew that there was important information here but just where was he. "Squeakers come out now or I will enter with forces and any servilans may be hurt." ginger shouted at rotten wood and stones. She waited but there was not a sound. "I know you're here. Don't make me call monster." Ginger waited again but she heard a light shuffle then a cowardly mouse showed himself form behind some bricks "please do what eve you want with me but just don't hurt my wife and children."
I will not hurt anyone but only if you give me the information I want." The mouse seamed slightly relieved but he had a new worry on his face. "Now have you heard of any new from the stoat or rat kingdoms?"
"Well it is very secluded here so I don't hear much anymore.
"Ginger grabbed squeakers by the whiskers " lission to me are you fond of you tail Because if you are I would start talking."
"ok ok ok please not my tail, I'll talk." he sobbed. "There was something about the stoats attacking the puri place two nights ago."
"What that can't be true."
"It is, it is they attacked because there was a low amount of guards because most of them were on weed patrol."
"Did they take hostages?"
"I don't know, they might. Maybe, they wouldn't take anyone; if they did they would have to be royalty or something."
"Oh no." ginger let go of Squeakers "thank you for your information and tell you lovely wife Bella I might be over later for some of her lovely baking." Ginger left squeaker in a ball of confused mess.