She smiled at Nir'wei when he said "strength in unity" back and her smile broadened at his term of endearment for her. But then, there was a tinkling noise and a zipping blue light and there, fluttering in front of her eyes was a tiny little dragonfly-like creature. Faith beamed in delight and then she heard the tiny voice in her head. "Hello Faith! I'm Shule! Oh, I like you and.." at Nir'wei's words, the tiny diri made herself visible. Nir'wei claimed, quite loudly Faith thought, that someone was adorable. Faith chose to believe that he meant Shule or, judging by his own eyes moving around, to a companion of Shule's. This prove itself to be true as she caught sight of the reason for the blue zipping light and Faith smiled. She was going to say something, when Shule piped up.
"So you two like, really love each other?" Faith glanced in some surprise, but then - this wasn't her first telepathic link. "Yes," she said. "He's my.." "Brother, yes. Hello!!" Shule said that to Nir'wei and Faith raised an eyebrow slightly. Then, the small creature - Nir'wei's diri called Cyshe fluttered over to her and Faith smiled. "It's a pleasure to meet you. And I adore him, too. " During this, Shule was flying around Nir'wei looking at him like he might be a specimen in a jar or some particularly interesting cut of beef.
She poked her head up suddenly and nodded, eagerly. "Explain? Me? Yes!! So, you are now, officially and hereto and forever and always and even longer if you can fernangle it, Wardens of the Lake!" The last she said like she expected a drum roll. "Which means that you have been tasked by Lovalus to protect Rharne and all her people. All of them. You must be brave, and selfless, and sometimes brave AND selfless all in the very same body, but you're both big and huge, so that'll be easy for you." Faith couldn't quite help the smile on her face at the enthusiastic little creature.
"We came about to protect Rharne from the Flameborn, from Faldrun the big stinkie that he is, and from Other Bad Things." Flittering around Nir'wei's face, she beamed at him. "You made a vow, and then Lovalus gave you me, and you her and he gave me Faith and he gave Cyshe Nir'wei and we're going to protect Rharne. Yes. Lovalus will protect you, love you, care for you. But not sing even if you ask really nicely and Lovalus doesn't dance." Shule seemed a little sad at this and her wings drooped.
Then, however, they lifted again. "And now we're a REAL FAMILY!"
