Morgan Gus sped up and I hurried after him. "Where are you going?" I called after him. "We"re here," he said, not looking back. Goose waddled up behind him flapping his wings and honking surprisingly loudly as if he could sense the nervous giddiness in his human. I certainly could. I glanced over to where Jack and the others were walking about twenty feet away and decided to leave them to it. I"d talked to all of them a little over the past two days, but there was one member of our travelling party that I was interested in spending more time with than the others. I caught up with Gus at the top of the hill and looked out over the bustling hub in front of me. I wasn"t sure what I expected, but this wasn"t it. Where the Nest had built upwards, Purple Oasis seemed to almost be sprawling a

