SkekSil wanted to go to the park again for more walking. Tonight, Brooklyn was preoccupied with more patrolling with Goliath and Broadway.

Angela was allowed to stay home tonight, as was Hudson and Bronx. Even if everyone didn't patrol all the time, there were always a few who did nearly every night for a little bit. Lex was babysitting again.

Sil went to the library to seek out Angela. He hadn't talked to her very much. He saw she was reading a book on the couch.

"What you reading?" Sil asked.

Angela jumped and looked up. It was Sil. "Oh, hi. I was just reading a romantic story." she replied. She was still wary of him. "What brings you here?"

"Looking for friends left home." Sil stated. He came around the couch and just let himself sit down. Angela pulled her legs to her body. "Also want to go to park, and friend Brooklyn out again."

"He should only be a couple of hours. It's not that long." Angela said. "Most patrols aren't too bad."

"I not have chance to talk with you yet. What your story?" Sil asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Brooklyn say you from magic island." Sil replied.

"Yes. That's true." she said.

"Well? Hmm?" Sil cocked his head in curiosity at her.

Angela felt that he was being too invasive too forcefully for her liking, but she told him.

"From what I know from Goliath, my mother, Demona, and the humans who raised me, Princess Katherine, Tom, and Magus, the clan was originally murdered by Vikings. There was no one awake that would have been able to raise me and my rookery kin. Goliath asked my human parents to take care of us. They did for over a thousand years on Avalon. No one can reach it without knowing the incantation to go there." Angela explained.

"Eventually, when an evil sorcerer called the Archmage threatened our lives, the Guardian, Tom, who was like my father growing up anyway, he went and got Goliath and brought him to Avalon. Elisa and Bronx came too. We all defeated the Archmage, the Weird Sisters, and Demona and MacBeth. MacBeth and Demona were under the Weird Sisters' spell. It just goes to show that Oberon's kind are not to be trusted so easily. And after the battle was won, me, Goliath, Elisa, and Bronx went on a World Tour to different places that needed our help. It lasted about six months. We came here to Manhattan the night that young Alex was born." Angela finished.

"Hmm. Quite the story." Sil expressed. "And more?"

"Oberon tried to take Alex to Avalon the same night he was born, and it was revealed that it wasn't necessary. We won, and that was the night that Xanatos said that he owed us a great debt of gratitude. When we got into trouble with the human hunters, he paid back that debt by letting us come live here."

"Did Brooklyn ever try to gain your favor?"

Angela saw that he could speak in a complete sentence for once. "Yes. They all did, at first. But I made it clear to them that I wasn't just some prize to be won and kept. I would make up my own mind in its own time. And by now, I have chosen Broadway as my mate. Brooklyn understands this, even if he might seem jealous. He'll find his mate someday." she declared. "I actually have fifteen rookery sisters on Avalon, and there are gargoyle clans all over the world. Small, but there."

"How many siblings you have altogether?" Sil asked.

"Including me, there were thirty-six of us. Three were also beasts, like Bronx. Boudicca was one of them."

"Like fizzgigs." Sil stated.

"Huh? What are fizzgigs?"

"On Thra, my planet, fizzgigs little balls of fluff, but have good bite. Gelfling keep as pets." Sil explained.

"Like I've seen on TV, you mean kind of like dogs?" Angela asked.

"Yes." Sil had seen dogs on TV as well.

"Gargoyle beasts are much like dogs too. Just our version." she said.

"Can Angela take Chamberlain to park? Or somewhere out of castle?" Sil asked. "Please? Would like to spend time with as friend."

"Well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt anything." Angela said. "I just need to leave a note." She was weary of this, but Angela hung out with Lexington sometimes too. It couldn't hurt to get to know Sil more.

Angela left a note on the couch for her mate or anyone who cared to find her. The two of them then headed to the battlements. Sil was wearing only light garments tonight.

Angela made sure to be wearing her earpiece in case she needed help or anything.

"So, how does Brooklyn take you out?" she asked.

"I ride on his back." Sil replied.

"Well, that's how I was going to offer to you too." she said.

Angela let him get onto her back. "Take off is only part that bother me." Sil admitted.

"I won't let you fall."

Angela had one arm around one of his thighs as he held on to her neck. She leaped off the battlement and got in the air. "So, where do you want to go?" she asked.

"Park. Or movie." Sil replied. He finally opened his eyes after takeoff.

"Well, a movie sounds good." Angela said.

She took him to the movie theater, where there was a western showing. Like at the rock concert, Sil and Angela had to sit in the rafters. There was popcorn up there to eat too. Angela liked it.

"You want some?" she asked, offering him a packet of it.

He smelled it. Sil felt a little hungry. It smelt good. "Hmm. I take, thank you." he took the sack and tore it open. They both ate their portions throughout the movie. Sadly, they didn't get drinks.
...

Goliath, Brooklyn, and Broadway soon came home. Brooklyn was looking for Chamberlain and Broadway was looking for his mate.

They went to the library and TV room. Hudson was there, but no Angela. Then, Brooklyn found the note on the couch. He read it. Angela and Sil had gone to the movies.

"Where is your friend, Brooklyn?" Goliath asked.

"Where is Angela?" Broadway asked.

"They apparently went to the movies." Brooklyn replied.

Broadway took the note from his brother rather forcefully. It was Angela's handwriting alright. He glared at the note. "He better not do anything to hurt her." he growled.

"He won't hurt her." Brooklyn declared.

"He better not." Broadway turned and went the other way.

"Are you really sure he can be trusted, Brooklyn?" Goliath asked. "I will not let my daughter come to harm."

"No, he won't." Brooklyn said. "I guess he just wanted to get out of here and I wasn't here to take him out."

"Let's hope it's just a trip to the movies and nothing more." Goliath said.

"You guys are still skeptical about him, aren't you?" Brooklyn demanded.

"Just being wary. There are just some aspects of his nature that seem... uncertain, is all." Goliath declared.

"I get that. I'm wary of him too, sometimes. But I try to be his friend, when he was looking for a friend too." Brooklyn replied.

"Just keep an eye on him, Brooklyn."

"I will."
...

Sil and Angela left the movie theater after it was over. It was quite a thriller. Sil had asked what sorts of animals were in the movie, such as the horses. They were much faster than any landstrider that Gelflings used to ride. And cows that were often eaten by humans and the clan too. There had been a cattle drive in the movie too.

After that, they went to the park for a little walk through it. Angela knew a spot where there was a drinking fountain to get some water, as they were both thirsty from the popcorn. Angela drank first.

When it was Sil's turn, he pressed the button and he had his mouth open, using his tongue to lap at the water. It wasn't long before he had enough.

"Good meal and drink. Cold water." he said.

"Yeah. Tastes great on a hot summer night." Angela stated.

They began to just walk through the park to enjoy its imagery.

"I always love coming to the park. It's so peaceful at night." Angela said. "I just wish humans would accept us for what we are. And maybe, even my mother might come around to liking humans."

"I not know much about your mother. Just know is immortal." Sil said.

"She doesn't like humans and has killed so many throughout the centuries. She had to face them while I was growing up. She doesn't trust them at all. She even came up with a magical spell and virus to try to wipe them all out once." Angela explained.

Sil's eyes lit up. Demona was more powerful than he thought.

"She may be my mother, but she can't be trusted, Lord Chamberlain. She's dangerous."

"Found out one night not long ago. She try to get me to come with her and betray friends. I turn on her. She left castle. All you out then." Sil declared. But he knew that his clan would make good use of her skills as both a sorceress and an immortal being.

As the two of them were talking in a clearing in some trees, there was some rustling of the wind in the trees. But it wasn't long that they were discovered there.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't a couple of freaks hanging out here where they don't belong." a wisecrack male voice said.

Sil and Angela looked around themselves. A gang of ten humans began to surround them.

"What do you want?" Angela demanded.

"Your heads as trophies!" Another man exclaimed. The men all began to withdraw weapons.

"This is just what we talked about, Sil. Remember your training." Angela said to him.

"Yes." he replied. The two of them stood back-to-back.

The men began to charge them both.

Sil had secretly been carrying his dagger with him.

Angela was able to knock men down easily and tripped some with her tail or whacked one in the face too.

Sil tripped some up, and he made sure to grab their arms and pushed them away with the strength that he had but making sure to not get stabbed or hit in the process. At one point, he had to go for his dagger.

His dagger crossed blades with a great big machete that was coming right at his head. Sil started growling, snarling, and showing what aggression he had for real. Angela was doing the same.

She was doing fine on her own, but then, there was one man who had snuck behind her and had a big sledgehammer on him. He hit her on her back. He hit her for a loop, and she fell to the ground, winded. She looked up at her attacker.

When Sil had drove off or knocked his opponents away from him, he turned and saw Angela was on the ground, injured possibly. He grinned smugly. He knew when to be quiet at times.

Angela saw him sneak up behind the man. But then, a sword went through the man. The human gasped in shock and pain.

"Leave... friend... alone!" Sil exclaimed angrily, as he pushed the man off his dagger.

Angela saw the human go off the sword. She had no idea he was even carrying it.

The rest of the humans ran off when they saw their leader had been killed. The man now laid there, dead.

Sil turned to Angela. "You okay?" he asked, turning calm. He offered his hand.

Angela was stunned that he had done that, but, he had just saved her life. She took his hand. Her back hurt where she had been struck. "Yeah. Nothing that stone sleep won't fix. Just a bruise for tonight. Thank you, Sil." she said.

"Welcome."

"We should get out of here. Before the rest of them wake up. I didn't know you had a sword with you." Angela said.

"Is own personal Skeksis dagger." Sil replied, holding it up to show off.

"It's different from any sword I ever saw. Including the Guardian's." she admitted.

"Skeksis make special swords and weapons." Sil stated. "But yes. We leave now."

The two of them walked onward, looking for a place to launch into the air.

"I normally wouldn't have been compelled to kill a human, but he was going to kill me." Angela said.

"Yes. Would have. I make sure he not do it."

Angela knew that enemies could often be killed in the heat of battle. But Sil hadn't needed to do it. But the man could have killed her, or would harm other humans, the innocent ones too. "But you could have just knocked him out." she stated.

"Just saving Angela's life. Too dangerous human." Sil said.

Angela agreed. Soon, the two of them found a spot. She needed to rest a moment. She called her father that she and Sil had been ambushed in the park, but were safe, and were going to head back. Goliath was worried, and he was going to come get Sil since she wouldn't be able to carry him back, with her injury.

Goliath soon found them. Sil would only ride on his back. He preferred to hold on rather than a gargoyle carry him.

"What happened?" Goliath demanded furiously.

"Some men surrounded us and were going to kill us. We fought them off. I got hit on the back and knocked down and winded. Chamberlain fought off the one going to kill me. He ... killed him." Angela explained.

Goliath turned to the Skeksis. "I save Angela's life. Human going to kill her if didn't." Sil lowered himself in submission.

"Is this true, Angela?"

"Yes."

Goliath then turned to Sil. "You are to be congratulated then, Chamberlain. Thank you for saving my daughter." he smiled at him.

Sil sighed in relief. "Live to be friend of clan."

"Let's go home. Do you think you can glide, Angela?" Goliath asked.

"Yes. I'll make it, Father." she replied.

They went walking for a takeoff place and found a rock to do so. Sil got on Goliath's back, and they took to the air. Angela followed behind him.

They went straight back to the castle. Broadway was more than happy to see his mate.

"Are you alright, Angela?" he asked.

"Yes, I'll be alright, my love." she smiled. Then, he turned to Sil.

"What were you doing with my mate anyway?" Broadway demanded.

"Just wanted out of castle for bit. Go to movie and walk in park. Get ambushed by humans. Save mate." Sil explained simply.

"Don't be mad at him, Broadway. He saved my life." Angela stood up for him.

"He what?" Broadway was shocked.

"He had to kill a man to protect me." Angela said.

Broadway looked at Sil in shock. The rest of the clan was now showing up.

"Just being friend to Angela. Just wanted to talk alone and hang out as friends." Sil explained.

"You saved Angela?" Brooklyn asked.

"Yes." Sil replied.

"She doesn't look really injured." Hudson stated. "But good on there, Sil, for saving the lass."

"You are to be commended, Chamberlain. With saving my daughter, you have my trust." Goliath said, laying a hand on his right shoulder.

Sil's eyes widened. "Oh, yes. Welcome." he replied.

The clan was more than grateful to him. He had killed a human in combat, but only to save a gargoyle. The only female of the clan, and the leader's daughter of them all. Sil had earned himself quite a reward.

There was still time for a meal before sunrise. They all had a special meal to thank him before sunrise.

When Elisa, Fox and Xanatos found out, there were proud of Sil too. He had earned himself much more respect to be trusted. He truly was trying to make it work here. He was loving the admiration.

They had a great meal and talk to finish off the night. Angela was alive tonight because of the Chamberlain.