The day found Aravis inside for once, despite the relative temperance of the weather. She'd woken to find a letter addressed to her from Cor, filled with the usual talk of how much he hated court, and stories of their friends (Hwin sends her love, he wrote, and Bree his questions of the quality of the horses there. He seems to continue to hope that someday you will write back that there are Talking Horses there, but send your assurance that they're still not as grand as he.)

This time, however, the letter ended in a question -- or rather, an invitation to spend the summer in Archenland.

Aravis was inside today, her window open and her dog resting on her feet as she sat at her desk composing a reply. She hoped that by the time she reached the end of it, she'd know the answer, though she certainly had an idea for what she'd respond.

[door open and so is the post, if you'd like!]

After she'd checked in on Trenor and taken Ata out, Aravis curled up on her bed with a book. She didn't much like the quiet, even if she did know where Karal was.

She kept looking up at the door over the top of her book, though, like she was expecting someone. No reason.

[for the boy.]

When Serafina woke, it was in a place she did not know, with an unfamiliar body in bed beside her.

After a quick, cursory glance around, she managed to surmise a few things:

1. He was naked.

2. So was she.

2a. Her clothing was on the floor beside the bed, along with her bow hooray the handwavey magic of Fandom

3. Kaisa was dozing next to the bed.

4. So was a dog.

...stranger things had happened. The biggest problem would be getting out before the boy or his daemon woke.

[yep, Aravis is Serafina Pekkala from The Golden Compass. For the perfectly normal boy, and his girlfriend's perfectly normal dog. ETA: I should note a few things about Serafina: she can fly, she has a bow and a sling of arrows (but she won't use them unless Seely keeps feeling her up, and a goose named Kaisa. In HDM-verse, humans are accompanied by the animal manifestations of their spirit. Serafina's is a goose named Kaisa.]