"LAST BUT NOT LEAST, FROM NEMEPHAN, QUEEN SAHAZ LAZOERI NEMEPHAN XIV, ARRIVES TO PAARJO, CAPITAL OF LUMIN KINGDOM, ACCOMPANIED BY STATE REGULATORS URGUN KAPER, MAART VATNI, AMEL IRTUD, AND ERMA IRACON."
Where is the announcer, anyway? I wondered, looking around the gardens for a second.
Lapia nudged my shoulder. "Focus," she chastised me. "They arrived," she muttered in distaste.
I raised my eyebrows in surprise at her tone and looked at the approaching group.
A group of twenty or so winged individuals were descending on the landing spot. Their wings replaced the arms, and feathers covered their bodies where clothes did not. Their feet where those of a bird, with four digits and talons. Their upper bodies looked like a person's, but slim and elegant. Their faces had lips, a nose, and feathered ears.
In short, Harpies.
I leaned close to Alyssa. "How come they kept the wings?" I inquired.
