Castle Roogna
“But just then they heard the beat of huge wings. The Hoorah was returning!
Jumper sprang out of the nest and disappeared below. Dor, alarmed, remembered almost immediately that no spider ever fell; his dragline protected him. Dor might have jumped similarly, but wasn't sure his own dragline was properly anchored. The Hoorah's approach had become audible just when Jumper was seeing to it, interrupting the process.
Or maybe, Dor reminded himself savagely, he was simply too scared to do what he had to, in time.
The Hoorah's mishmash plumage appeared. It covered the nest. Something dropped. "Hoo-rah!" Then the bird was off again on its insatiable mission of collection.
The thing most recently deposited stirred. It flung limbs about, and a curtain of hair. It righted itself and sat up.
Dor stared.
It was a woman.
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