"As long as he doesn't peck my eyeballs out," she answered, fingers walking lazily up Harry's chest and then down again, tracing a slow pattern on his skin. "I need those for seeing things and batting my eyelashes at you and doing the whole big eyes look to get out of trouble."

But the thought of that, of being up in the air on a creature like that... it was definitely cool. Sometimes she missed her family more than she could even put into words, but other times she had to admit that life here was giving her more than she would have had in Overland Park.