<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/df/Geisha.jpg)</div><strong>Earlier<br/>Joint Post With Starfall:  </strong><br/><br/>The six mortal girls hurried to smoothly get each other into their snug, bare midfiffed lamelar.  Then they moved quickly to finish taking down the tents and load the camp into the saddle bags.<br/><br/>Gentle Words slipped away from her nude protector once she was geared up.  When Starfall realized she couldn't find the gentle Linowan warrior, she almost panicked again before the copper skinned girl touched her gently on the shoulder, offering a soft smile and holding out her robe, panties, stockings and sandals.<br/><br/>By the time this was done, the seven strix had landed on the grass and were watching them curiously.  The girls were quick to carefully set simple saddles onto the birds.<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fa/Gentle_Words_for_you..jpg)</div>Then two of them each took Starfall and Mistwind's hand.  “You two need to mount Echoes of the Star Light.  Our strix aren't strong enough yet to carry both us and one another girl while we're armored,” Savanah Moon explained.<br/><br/>“Come on,” Hitomi sing songed,” there's nothing to be afraid of.”<br/><br/>Once they were all mounted, at first nothing happened.  Then a soft whistle was carried on the wind and the great owls leaped into the air and beat wing through the woods!<br/><br/>*   *   *<br/><br/>Not long before they reached the clearing, Whipsers studded a track carefully, then said, “We're getting close.”  She looked back the way they'd came, and whispered, “The girls should be ready by now.”  She let off a soft, essence enhanced whistle before stalking softly through the woods, stopping in the shadows of a tree when they could see the battlefield.<br/>