<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/564x/29/61/bb/2961bba0a67dc7ef244e4f98742002b6.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                                                          Keli</strong></div><hr/>Songbird would do as told and would climb into his lap.  She would feed him by hand and offer him drink.    On the invite, she would answer him.   "Master, I do not think a reply is expected, only your presence when we make camp.".  She leaves it at that.  Opportunity is not gained to do such.  As the caravan starts back up.<br/><br/>The high part of the day is upon the caravan.  It is hot now,  and the land has become sparse as it has now become more desert and they now travel over the shifting sands.    They have been traveling for about three hours after the stop.  When the young girl, the daughter of the merchant and his family, steps in quicksand.    She is swallowed up.   The slave carts continue,  sergeant Mulhaja sees this and draws it to their attention.   The merchant and his wife are frantic.   As their daughter has disappeared under the sands.<br/><br/><strong>"Undo me quick."</strong>The Hawk calls out from his demeaned position of being transported.   Keli goes to kick him.<strong>"Hurry or she'll be lost I can get her."</strong>Keli pulls short her kick and leans over and undoes the binding, and the Hawk flops to the ground.   He grabs the end of her rope on Keli saddle and with shackled feet and arms dives into the quicksand.    For long seconds there is nothing.  Only their prisoner is gone and the girl from the merchant family.   Then a tug on the rope.   Keli begins backing up her horse, and the rope begins pulling out.  The Hawk and sixteen-year-old girl surface and are pulled out of the  quicksand.<br/><br/>Afterwards, the merchant and wife are thanking the cat.  Keli tells him to get on the horse.   Allowing Hawk to ride instead of how he had been.   Songbird is impressed, she who had suffered by the cat.   Is impressed that he did not hesitate in going to save the girl.  It showed a different side of the rake.  The merchant family and then fall towards the back of the long caravan.   It is the place they hold for the next four hours.  When the stop for the day is called, the first night.<br/><br/>