Outside Omens

She flinched a little, unused to gestures of comfort, but recognized that it was not a threat and allowed the daeva's wing to remain where it was. "Another girl to talk to," she mused, thinking of the groups of females she'd seen together all over the world, talking and laughing, casting odd looks at the males and spending a great deal of money. "Humans are strange. I don't understand them. And they're so fragile."