<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/98/5b/d8985b98a1edf0a3b46e0dbc84993f46.jpg)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/9e/7b/c4/9e7bc4f627de4b3d9ee11374dca660db.jpg)<strong></strong></div><div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/11/ff/f8/11fff896403dc7855fea201c8d88d00b.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/8a/e6/fa8ae6cc4f30eecc8312ea4430a318d7.jpg)</div><div class="floatright"><div align="center"><strong>Songbird</strong></div></div><div class="floatleft"><div align="center"><strong>Hawk</strong></div></div><div align="center"><strong>Sergeant Mullhaja                                                         Takxi</strong></div><hr/>Songbird listened in silence, not interrupting what he had to say.  Once he is finished, she would ponder what her response would be.  It does not take her long to consider what she has been told about the events and what had happened with Keli.<br/><br/>"You look for absolutes master in a world that is shaded by grays.   The fact remained, she had considered taking and listen to what the Hawk would say.   If she was teaming up with him,  it mattered not that she had not unshackled him.  She held the power and she knew that, as did the Hawk.   Who not only looked to profit, but gain his freedom.   Which is his goal first and foremost. She had just by listening had betrayed the trust as a caravan guard.   It is the reason the caravan captain of the caravan had to be harsh in her punishment.   Now say such was not done.   It allowed her an opportunity that she may or may not have taken.   If taken, the results could be countless deaths due to the raids of the gnoll tribes.  Yet may hap she does not now it is her that has suffered.  So the choice was between one small evil for the possible greater good at saving life.  Of course master you are a thinker, and you will tell yourself perhaps she never meant to betray that you jumped to assumption.  I point out that if such was  true, she would have remained in camp and had the Hawk tell what he knew."<br/><br/>She would fall silent,  she had said a lot.   She once an concubine of his father.  As claimed by his mother that the late emperor was his father.   Is this the decisions that Songbird witness that the late emperor had to make.   Did it weigh on his mind and soul.<br/><br/>Once had been her province.   Or was to be,  it is what her life had been trained towards.   Now her life was simpler and she felt for the first time she was free.   Strange, she felt freer as a concubine than she had as princess or empress.