**Belle – Ayero – Ladyl Woods**

Belle ruffled her feathers and studiously ignored the rude human but lowered herself by quite a bit to allow the short female human to climb on, if she so wanted. The pidgeot's eyes were still closed in a pleasant expression of serenity, even if she thought that the little itsy-bitsy vaporeon didn't like her much. That was okay by her – it would change! He seemed so prickly, but not at all different from her own human. Protective! 

Sometimes Belle wondered whether her Seth would ever find a nest of his own. It had been over ten cycles, she knew, since they had last stayed anywhere longer than a month – and that had been because of an unfortunate blizzard. Still, while she hoped her master would stay with this little group of humans, the future was never certain. She would try.

Still, she snubbed Sebastian completely, her few tailfeathers shaking in a gesture of utmost disrespect. Not even her human's mother could speak to her like that, like she was a common *rattata*. Ew. No boy like that would be flying with *her*.