Stolen Sunlight Chapter Two

Chapter 2: Karma Bites

"I'm home" Shrike called loudly shutting the door behind him.

"Hi daddy!" Minney's voice called from the dining room. She ran to greet him, throwing her arms around his waist. "How was your day?"

"Good" He said smiling and held up a bag. "I've got something for you"

"Told ya" A voice from the opposite direction. It came from a girl with a mohawk who looked barely sixteen. Minney stuck her tongue out at her "You don't know everything, Ya know!"

Shrike tipped the bag over to let seven large colouring books flop to the ground.

"Oh thank you daddy!" She said, her sky blue eyes blazing. She let out a shrill whistle and a brown blur shot into the room and landed neatly on her shoulder. "Look Niko, Daddy brought more colouring books home" The bird made a soft cooing noise of agreement and ruffled his feathers clumsily. "Okay, go change then" she said impatiently.

"One of these days, he's going to leave." The Girl said to Minney wearily, and looked at Shrike "and one of these days, she's going to need another bookcase for all those colouring books."

"I know, but she loves them so much" he said a smile forming on his lips, then he look at Minney "Okay, go colour with Niko."

"Okay" She turned to the girl "Sheev, when are we going hunting again?"

"This evening" Sheeve said quietly, she always thought it was sad that the little girl had to hunt, but she seemed okay with it. She watched Minney wander off down the hall.

"That boy's going to leave us one of these days..." She said calmly.

"He's family now" Shrike said. He liked having Niko around, it gave him a reason to cook "Besides, it helps for her to have a friend. Oh, and your orange..." He said absent mindedly, due to the fact that Sheev's skin had just turned the shade of a pumpkin
"Minney, I swear, If you don't stop, I'm going to rip up all your colouring books!" She shouted at the hallway, a scurry of footsteps ran down the hall followed by a fit of giggles.