[Bear.]

. . . He didn't think much of it, until he saw Skylar exit with a sall leather-bound book gripped in her talons. He ducked out of sight as Skylar pushed the sill shut with her beak before flapping off into the woods. Aldwyn found her actions curious and decided to follow her. He stepped quietly through the dense underbrush at the edge of the woods until he arrived at a clearing. Fallen leaves of orange and green carpeted the ground, and at the center, Skylar was perched opon a tree stump, the borrowed - or was it stolen? - Book open before her. . . .~ The Familiars, Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson

Aldwyn, On His First Night Of Being A FAmiliar, Has Woken Up, And Had Followed Skylar To A Clearing,
Where She Is Practicing Dark Human Magic From Wyvern & Skull's Tome of the Occult. Strange . . .