"I wouldn't wish to keep you," Arialla said, accepting the food with notably more pleasure than she'd taken the doll. "Thank you again -- you've done much for me today, and I truly appreciate it."
Unspoken were the words you didn't have to: presumably Mildew knew very well just how generous she'd been and had chosen to bestow her gifts upon Arialla anyway. Witches could be capricious like that, Arialla knew, and so it would be unwise to take more of her time than Mildew wished to give.
"Goodbye," she added, politely. "It was nice meeting you."
With that, she departed from Mildew's home, planning to find some nice quiet spot to sit and eat the meal before she returned to Torchline. After all, her eagle form wouldn't be able to carry the food.
- FIN
please don't take my sunshine away
