“They had excellent taste.”
A Wild hero of The Wildkin
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She was a circus menagerie-keeper — the ethical kind — and she houses a hundred animal spirits and lends them out. Menagerie answers calls with exactly the right beast for the job, and sometimes three. The spirits chose her. They had excellent taste.
The warehouse search has her lending out the bloodhound spirit to Dustrunner's trail, the moth spirit to Wisp's fireflies, the quiet mouse spirit to check the walls. A hundred spirits, and tonight she needs exactly three. The spirits chose her. They knew.
Swarmheart keeps the queen's seat offer in her pocket, and Menagerie keeps a place set at the menagerie — a hundred spirits and room for one swarm. The family is growing. The family had excellent taste. The family always does.
“Not the city animals — the wild ones, the ones that don't belong to anyone. Menagerie's spirits are restless in a way she has no words for, pacing the way they pace before weather, and there is no weather coming. Dustrunner followed the scent-trails out of the Drowned Quarter and found them all pointing the same direction: away. The pigeons won't say why. The gulls are gone entirely.”
The animals are leaving Vesper.
Vesper's animal-kin — heroes the wild claimed as its own. They run with packs, fly with flocks, and answer the calls the city makes in the language of tooth and feather. The Wildkin don't command animals. They're family.
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