[[ahh, heck with it, people have posted recently and I've been slow<img alt=":D" src="./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif" title="Very Happy"/>]]<br/><br/>The lower aerial observer seems to reach a decision, and starts slowly diving towards the stand of green trees up ahead. Oddly, she seems to cast a sharp shadow as though there were sunlight even though there's what appears to be fog overhead; indeed, it 'feels' sunny without there seeming to be a specific sun in the gray sky. As the circling creature comes closer, flashes of white are more visible as feathers come into view. Soon after, the humanoid body atop it comes into focus- a white-feathered harpy. Presumably the other one was just getting more altitude if needed. The harpy settles onto a low branch of the nearest tree, preening under one wing absently while looking over the group. The harpy breaks into a smile, liking what she sees; "Good! Another group who's got a good commonsense approach to things. I'm Aida, one of the leaders of the harpy flock around these parts and liaison," she grins, "To some of the other beastly races. Good to see more friends coming by."<br/><br/>She's got a thin, shiny sheen of sweat on her skin from the effort of climbing and descending on wing power alone; it's enough to make the red face paint start to run down her angular cheekbones a little. With a pretty ivory necklace resting strategically between round breasts held in by a silken shift that matches her wings, she strikes an alluring figure- by the glint in her eye, she knows it. "You've got a human there-" she nods at Bella. "Er, elf. Same thing, really-"<br/><br/>"Are not!" Bella says with some asperity. "Half-elf-"<br/><br/>"-half human then! She's not the kind of person we should be running around with. I mean, it's all well and good when you're scrabbling for allies, but just give me and my sisters the elf-thing, hmm? We'll have fun, won't hurt the poor thing too much- not her fault she was born wrong- and we can get on to the business of taking over this pesthole of a demoness's back pocket, hmm?"<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Aida the Snow Harpy</span><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/n1kvDe8.png">http://i.imgur.com/n1kvDe8.png</a></div></div></div>