Renan noticed that the bear guardian and the panther were staying outside of the grotto. No matter. He dismissed the crow with the thought, [i]Go. Be with them. Make sure that they don't get into trouble.[/i] With this the black bird flew back out of the grotto and landed on the panther's back, taunting it. It would soon fly onto the bear and do the same.

Meanwhile Renan, noticing that the girl seemed wet and cold, lit a fire the cave's fireplace, admiring the intricately carved mantelpiece with the insignia of a bear in the centre. He turned, and headed for a pile of leather scraps that lay near a workbench, picking up a load and placing some on each of four stone beds as a makeshift mattress and blanket. After doing this, he walked to the stone shore of the grotto and whistled up out of the trapdoor, beckoning to the large boy and fragile girl. Following this he approached the brown hairs girl and asked her name.

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Steve had grown tired of pestering the other guardians, and began to swoop through the forest. As he began to fly in higher, wider circles, he noted two things. To the far northeast, there was a governmental outpost designed to function as a makeshift barracks. Upon coming back to earth to inform Renan of this, he once again encountered the boy with the eagle, pausing for a moment to look at the eagle before flying back to the grotto's entrance.