<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6b/5f/d3/6b5fd36a5b475af394692ec0b3d92495.jpg)</div>She smiles to the suggested name.   "It is your pleasure if you want to call me Songbird."  Even through she does not say, the inflection of her voice says she is pleased by the name.   Of course, she would not say it,  such is not her place as she is viewed on the lowest rung of the society's caste as a slave.<br/><br/>Like the other times, the Songbird proves to be an engaged, attentive listener.    Especially when he begins talking about hippogriffs.   A genuine joy to hearing of such magical beast.<br/><br/>The stop to feed and water the horses at a nearby stream.   She hands her spear over to Darius when he asks her to do so.   "Here."  Darius catches a fish.    Prepares it and cooks the fish for them.    She is also attentive in watching him do this.    You realize as a concubine she likely has never done or seen such simple tasks being performed.<br/><br/>The inn proves to be small with only a few rooms,  one is open, and they are able to secure the room.    However, while they enjoyed the inn for a bit in the common room.  Laya would ask permission if she could sing.   She of course has sat on the floor next to his seat. Cross-legged as she had done back at the inn in the capital this very morning.   She begins to sing.<br/><br/>"There was a man called himself a hero<br/>He flies into the blue, blue sky<br/>Saving souls and breaking hearts<br/>Everybody adores him, give him a hi-five<br/>He said in his loneliness, speaks distinctly<br/>There's no one in this town, who doesn't need me!<br/>And he flies again<br/>Save another soul, Breaks another heart<br/>There was this girl he met right there in the crowded<br/>He captured her right away and he fell in love in second<br/>There was this girl he met right there in the crowded<br/>He captured her right away and he fell in love in second<br/>He tried every way to please her<br/>But the girl doesn't seem to be happy at all<br/>He did everything to make her smile<br/>But the girl don't really care<br/>She just seemed not to care at all<br/>She just seemed not to care at all<br/>There was this girl he met right there in the crowded<br/>He captured her right away and he fell in love in second<br/>There was this girl he met right there in the crowded<br/>He captured her right away and he fell in love in second<br/>There was this girl he met right there in the crowded<br/>He captured her right away and he fell in love in second"<br/><br/>Halfway through, the villagers, farmers and laborers demand her to take a seat.   Her voice is melodious tone.   That spreads through the inn and conversations had stopped.   All eyes are on her.   Through, she has been ogled.   Now they hang on her every word.   As she sings of a hero and his true love.<br/><br/>For Darius it  likely will tug on his own desires.   As if she offers the world and he is the hero.   Is she the love,  in this song.    But each one in the inn is affected, couples now peer into each others eyes with that first tenderness of a first love.<br/><br/>The old codger her former master was right, she is special.  She is a songbird.<br/><br/>