"It's not my fault Liaena can't even raise a bloody bird properly! Hmmmpffh!" Rithrynn scoffed as she pointed accusingly up at Hester. Realizing that there was little point in arguing about it, as the bird was as stubborn as her owner herself, Rithrynn let out a deep sigh as she instead turned to look over at Ashei who was still sleeping along the wall of some random house in the middle of the street.

Walking over to her unconscious sister, Rithrynn grabbed Ashei by both her shoulders before shaking her back and forth.

"Wake up, Ash! WAKE UP!"

"Wha-wuh-weh, uh... Rithrynn?" Ashei immediately woke up as she was shaken violently back and forth by her sister. Eyes zeroing in on Rithrynn's face over her, a moment of confusion and surprises landed on Ashei's face as she recognized Rithrynn.
"What... are you doing here?"

"What are YOU doing HERE?! Why were you sleeping in the middle of the street!" Rithrynn insisted, ignoring Ashei's own question. Ashei remained quiet for a moment, as the sentinel gazed around herself at the empty street, noticing Kathlin and Nisha in the back. Her own legs were almost halfway on their way to become buried by the falling snow, and she now realized how cold she actually was.

"Uhm, I was... escorting that other human girl from the mansion," Ashei said while chewing her lips, trying to remember what had happened before she had suddenly fallen asleep. Reaching behind her head, she let out a quick moan of discomfort as she yanked out a dart that she held up in between herself and Rithrynn.
"And... then I got hit by this."

Rithrynn's eyes grew greatly in size as she recognized the pin. It was obvious who's handiwork this was. For who else had no larger affection for doping down Night Elves for mild offenses than the notorious midget Liaena herself?!

" .... when you fell asleep, where did she go?"

"I don't know! Goddess, I was drugged, Ri!

"I need to find her. She's in danger!" Rithrynn quickly explained as she extended a hand to Ashei to pull the sentinel up from the snow and back onto her feet. Ashei brushed off the remaining snow flakes as she threw Rithrynn a suspicious look.

"On your own?"

"Yes, I'm her friend you see." Rithrynn explained as she walked back towards the nightsaber, before mounting up in front of Kathlin. Motioning for the human to give her the chocolate bag, Rithrynn opened it as she gazed back down at Ashei.
"That means she is less lilkely to drug me... "

Rithrynn broke the connection with Ashei at the last sentence, for she knew all too well that it was a lie of the century. If anything, Liaena was more than happy to use her as her own personal guinea pig! 

"I will come with you!" Ashei called out, and Rithrynn paused to look up at the air with a sigh.
"No, I don't nee,- offh!"

However, Rithrynn was interrupted as Ashei suddenly jumped up on Nisha's back behind Kathlin, squeezing the little human into Rithrynn's back as Kathlin was now trapped between two fully grown Night Elves. Nisha let out a growl of protest, and reared her head up to Rithrynn in a typical "You got to be kidding me" look, to which Rithrynn only responded with an apologetic shake with her head.

"Alright, here's your blood money you little vermin!" Rithrynn called out as she suddenly threw a bar of chocolate up to Hester who was perched on the mailbox. The gluttonous little owl immediately reacted, and snatched the bar in between her greedy, ravenous beak.
"Now lead us to Liaena!"

Rithrynn shouted as she grabbed the reins of Nisha, ready to kick off. 
But rather than immediately bursting off, there was an awkward silence that followed as Hester merely gazed back down at Rithrynn with the chocolate bar still in her beak, throwing the Night Elf a long, hopeless look.

However, finally, Hester spread her wings and began to flutter out into the winter sky; with bits of chocolate falling down from the sky as she was gobbling up the chocolate bar mid flight. Rithrynn immediately followed, kicking Nisha into a bout of speed as the nightsaber leaped forward, and sprinted through the narrow pathway of the mage district in pursuit of Hester.