Kate is sitting in her last class of the year. She watches the clock counting down the time to WinterFest holiday. There is a knock on the door when a messenger arrives with a sealed note.<br/><span style="color: #4040FF">[color=#40FF40]</span>[/color] Dear, Kate, I have for you a Winterfest Gift. If he is still alive,you will find him at the wharf. I hope you have overcome your fear of going down there. I have my pet since he was 8 years old. I have seen to his education and Lord Draco has trained him personally. You should be a full flegded mage now and old enough to court. May he please you as he has me. That is if he is still alive by the time you find him.<br/><br/>Your Aunt,<br/><br/>Malora<br/><br/>Kate read the letter and quckly approched her teacher. I have to leave Mage Addison. I have a family matter to attend to. I am sorry to leave early. It involves my Aunt Malora and a pet of hers. The teacher shakes his head and sighs, "By all means Katherine. Take what you need from the infirmy and send word if you need assistance."<br/><br/>Kate ran to gather supplies and hand just made a healing potion in class earlier. She met her father's driver outside and hands him the letter. "Please Peel hurrry."<br/><br/>Peel had the horses in a full gallop and stops at the warehouse that animals were housed in pens. Kate rushed to a guard and he leds her to a pen where a large cage holds a young male, shackled and barely clothed.<br/><br/>The young man sees a young female about his age. She wears a mage robe cloaked with a woolen cape. Her hair is red/brown in a single braid down to her waist and she looks at him with large, emerald green eyes. She opens the gate to the stall and stands before the cage. "Oh Gods are you alive?" Her voice just as worried as the expression on her face.