"Yes." The guardian answered, sitting and trying to regain some dignity by licking a paw. "There is an hawk outside your window that seems to want in."

"A hawk?!" Repeated the shocked girl.

She crawled off the bed and went to her window. She unlatched it and opened it. Nothing happened.

"Oh Shadow, you're just being para- WAHH!" Lucette screamed as something wooshed by and dropped another something on her head.

"Ow!" Lucette complained, gingerly rubbing the spot. That something that frightened her turned out to be an hawk, which landed on the back of her chair and perched there, looking at her. Lucette spotted a letter and picked it up. The seal on the letter was very fine.

"Hmmm..." She slid a fingernail underneath and slipped it open, pulling a piece of paper out.