Getting Caught!

The birds were silhouettes against the orange-kissed heavens. Only an hour ago they would have been pale against a blue sky, but the twilight was advancing and soon they would be lost in blackness, roosting with head tucked under wing until dawn.

In the evening, Norman came to the Mordrake city again with the same form as he had come before, a bluish-white seagull.

Flying past the city walls Norman went straight towards the largest and the biggest manor situated in the middle of the city.

Slowing down, the seagull hovered in front of a window in the castle on the third floor guessing it was Alex's room.

But after not finding anyone inside, Norman thought that Alex should be in the study room or in the main hall. Norman took a flight again and tried to pass by every window hoping to see the boy. 

Just when Norman was trying to pass by a closed window, it suddenly opened up outward.

The seagull's eyes went wide 'Oh, Mother Forest'