Birdie jumped to the side of the trail as the two excitable elflings came galumphing back to the party. "Watch where you put those clumsy beasts!" Birdie hollered, but the two giggling Fair Folk paid no attention.
Birdie wiped the muck off her cloak, doing it little good. But she listened along with the others as they offered their lay. Elves were singing, and one had no other choice but to listen.
After the song was through, Bird nudge Holly and said under her breath, "Yon elf maid with the addled brain could have WRITTEN that song, I think."
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