She had been heading for sick bay. She had been told that she had to check in for medical clearance before she could find out about joining this place's version of the Hawks. She had been given clear directions.

She was in the wrong place and getting herself more and more lost the more she walked.

And then that voice. She was moving before she had decided to change directions, walking swiftly.

Everyone always told her that no one needed to read her mind to know her thoughts, and Severn said that she had a whole set of expressions she only used around children. Certainly the warm smile, the softness in her eyes had no other place in her life. She smiled more as she absorbed his words.

He could have been one of Marin's. Sassy, smart mouthed, but well dressed and healthy. More than she could have hoped for most of the children in her life to this point.

"Hello," she said with a warmth in her voice that very few people would have ever heard from her. Severn would know that voice, but that was Severn, he knew more about her than she knew about herself.

She familiar, a small transparent dragon-looking thing, uncoiled from her shoulders and craned it's long prehensile neck to peer at him.