Dinner started as a very silent affair, I was seated between Wren and Aspen. Wren was unusually quiet as she stared a hole into her full plate of food. I looked over her head at Opal who was paying more attention to Zuko than our sister. "What's the matter little bird?" I asked her, she looked up at me her small brown eyes sad and defeated. "I wish I could do more....I wish I was able to beat up the man for hurting you." I thought she was the cutest little thing trying to be protective the way she was. "I think you do enough as is Wren, not everyone can make the sun shine with the words of a song, but you can. You know for a fact I could make a dead man weep with the way my voice sounds." Her lips tilted upward and a small giggle escaped her. "Plus we have Aspen now, he'll beat men e

