-~-<br/><br/>A Familiar Hawk operates on instinct and animal intelligence, but also with intuition supplied by the connection to her Friend.  Sunscry simply knew where to fly in order to make the nervous feeling stop.  She couldn't have explained it much better than that even if she had words to do so.  Her connection with her Friend only grew stronger when he followed her on her important mission.  The trust between them had grown to a new level.<br/><br/>She circled the little town many times, and came to feel more and more at ease in this new place.  The feeling in her wings, in her chest had faded.  As night fell, and as Zeraer came closer to his own journey's beginning, she was suddenly warmed with contentment, perched high in an overlooking tree.  Fall's cool breezes gently ruffled her feathers, and she turned her head to the side and down for a short rest.<br/><br/>-~-<br/><br/>Standing, his staff snapping up into his hand, Zeraer took in Verna's troubled look.  He placed one hand on her shoulder, felt the compatible energy of a friendly connection and let that warmth spread from his hand and into her.  Stooping slightly to speak softly, he muttered, "do not worry; let your mind be at ease."  He patted her shoulder twice, and then walked slowly to the private booth.<br/><br/>He pulled the curtain slightly to one side.  Looking back, arching his eyebrows again at his former tableside companion, giving a little smile to the halfling and half elf, and with a curious shrug, he stepped inside.<br/>