Carina slept for two days after the Flight touched down, insensate and exhausted. She managed the quickening, a soft rain of magic that only needed her to guide it, and collapsed. When she woke on the third day it was to the sounds of glee and when she stepped from her room it was into the midst of a flurry of wings. The children of the Flight were again aloft and the sight brought tears to her eyes. They all fluttered down when they caught sight of her and whisked around her laughing with ...