"A friend and an adventure." Stone considers. "All right. When I was visiting another court, to try and drum up some help for mine, I was flying on my way back when I stopped to rest on one of the floating islands over the eastern plain. Turns out I wasn't the only one. There was this kid, a consort like me, only much younger and smaller, and he was picking around in the ruins there." Stone chuckles. "I startled him, I think. I can't talk in my big winged form anymore, so I couldn't tell him I didn't mean any harm. Kind of chased him around trying to get a better look."

He settles more comfortably at one of the worktables, watching Sora work with interest as he speaks. "He got away from me, but I stuck around. Turns out he was living with some groundlings, but they worked out what he was-- like me, a shapeshifter, a predator, though we don't eat groundlings they don't always believe that. Idiots staked him out to get eaten by some of the local wildlife."