'Quiet you wretched skin-changer!' cried Pio, throwing a pillow at the hysterical woman. 'You're screaming loud enough to wake the dead!'
The incongruity of her being there coupled with those last words hit both of them at the same time.
Pio fell of the footboard, laughing hard at her joke.
Bird's screaming stopped abruptly and she looked at the hysterical apparition now convulsed on her rug.
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Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
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