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Tira looked sad and she glomped Eoma. She held her for a moment and let go, "I.... know what it is like to lose my parents too.... and, I don't really know what to say but.... you're among good people here." Tira looked like she might cry and quickly turned away to hide any tears.

Balthier continued, "she's right. For however long you wish to stay we'll watch out for you."

Zark didn't really understand why everyone was sad so he said, "what's a robot?"

***

Valen answered his door, "good afternoon Vhaidra, how may I help you today?"

Eoma hugged Tira back awkwardly, she wasn't very good with sensitive stuff. "Uh thanks." She mumbled, a faint flush burning her cheeks. "That's a robot!" Well, Atomaton actually." Bouncing forward, she leapt at Cyroalpha and gave him a hug. "Delivering a mesage from my parents is helping me, well, kinda... What do they want?"

Eoma shuffled through the parts with surprise. "Oh! Thank you, these will be useful. And tell the I won't be back for a long while. There's a 100% chance they'll be more than irritated then." She gently placed the new parts into the same pile as the older ones and stood up. "Uh, so where do the bad parts go again?" She scratched her head as she looked down at the pile of junk. While she asked a crane could be heard starting in the background. "Opps!" Hopping back down into the shell she loosened the bolts that kept it in place and crouched down, gripping the bottom of it. Heaving it above her head, which looked fairly odd seeing as it definatly weighed more than she did, she gently put it down on the floor, giving room for the new engine to come in. "Did you guys manage to find a Shyhawk? Or did you have to settle with a different model?" She asked as she climbed out of the pit.

"Yeah, I made him. Only a few months ago, but he knows me well enough."

Valen smiled, "thank you." He took the glass capsule and looked at the sculpture. "You are very talented. And I suppose that it won't melt while in here correct?"

***

"I managed to find a used Skyhawk engine, but it looked in pretty good shape," Balthier answered.

Zark looked at Lily rather puzzled, "do you really think you might change into a wolf tonight?"

"ZARK!!!!!" Tira looked visibly peeved at Zark's stupidity.

Zark looked at her like 'what did I do?' and she just stared back at him like 'you are dumber than a 5 legged cow in a mine.'

When Lily had left Tira got right up in Zark's face and shook her hands while saying, "what in the 9 hells Zark!?"

Zark just looked dumbfounded, "waht?"

Tira just shook her head.

"Ahem," Balthier interrupted, "could you continue this elsewhere? Or are you going to help get Red Dawn back in the sky?"

"Right captain," Tira replied. She motioned for Zark to grab some parts and she grabbed some others and they took them away to the spare cargo hold, the one that was smaller and had not been cleaned up yet.

When they too were gone Balthier turned his attention to Eoma, "so yeah, we have an interesting group of passengers on board to say the least. Did Tira already tell you about the rest?"

***

"Hmm, well when you retire from flying around you will have a hobby to keep you occupied," Valen said.

Valen agreed, it did rather catch him off guard to see Ikzer and Rae settle down in a nice home. "I suppose it is something all dragons do. When they have seen enough of the world and acquired enough wealth they wish only to protect it and enjoy their spoils. It is rare to see old dragons traveling the world, it has always been that way since I have been alive." Although technically he was Undead Valen preferred to refer to himself as among the living. Most Vampires felt this way, since Undead was usually associated with the ugliness of a Liche or Zombie. With Valen of course it was slightly different, he referred to himself as living because he wanted to live again.