Veilbreaker! Oops I Bleed Again - Chapter 17: Departure

... er Venice. He took her tent and gear and fixed them so he could carry them on his back.

Mother Venice was holding a birdcage at that time. She gently lifted the small bird inside.

"Are you setting it free, Madam?" Draven asked, strapping the oversized bags onto his back like an awkward hiker.

"Not really," Mother Venice said with a bittersweet smile. "We've stayed here for twenty years. This will be the third time I've had to relocate in my eighty-one years of existence." ...