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"He did what, you said?"

"Summoned it, as near as we can tell." Ysalka rolled her shoulders in a shrug and scuffed her feet on the floor. "We can't tell from where, before you ask."

Azsuna frowned, lowering her head from the sprawl of maps and charts piled up around her until her jaw rest nearly on the floor, eyes rolled down to regard both the hatchling fae perched between herself and the snapper who had brought him, and the strange familiar that attempted to hide behind him. "The creature," the great imperial said at last, "resembles those reported from portal sites. Perhaps he found it following a patrol."

"It did not follow anyone," Ysalka said again. "He put a claw to the air and it came to him from it."

"You would have me believe a hatchling opened a portal?"

"A hatchling summoned a creature consistent with portal sightings," Ysalka corrected. "I would have you believe our reports are accurate, ma'am."

Aszuna sniffed faintly. She lifted her head and returned to the charts. "Have them filed with intake. Krushitel and Alexandretta will want to study them, at least."

Ysalka nudged the hatchling. "Well then, little one. Welcome home."