Tiki has spent a fair amount of time curled up in a ball, crying. Not the hysterical crying anymore, but the soft, steady tears that come from true heartache.
Most of her time, however, is spent watching over
The Nice Lady in her
'looking rose' that she made. At first Tiki thought that The Nice Lady was sleeping, but as she she looked she realized that it had been too long for sleep.
Tiki began to mutter quietly. "The Nice Lady cannot be sleeping. But if not sleeping, then what is she doing?"
The picture inside the puddle of dew grew until Tiki could see almost the whole library. Tiki frowned.
"Why are all the birds in the library? This doesn't make sense. The Nice Lady likes the library nice. I don't think she would let all those birds in there."
Tiki paces a bit.
"Birds in the library...The Nice Lady, looking like she's sleeping, but it's been too long....
Something's wrong." Tiki decides.
"What if Puck got to her already?! He could have, before I started watching her. And that would be bad. He could have done this to her. Although I still don't know what the birds are for. But, um. I should go check on her! Maybe I can help!
Don't want anyone to see me..shouldn't fly. Ah! I'll poof!"
And with that decided, the space formally occupied by Tiki is empty, a tiny wiff of smoke the only proof that she was there just a moment earlier.
Meanwhile, in the library, on the top of one of the tallest bookshelves, Tiki appears. She still could not be noticed if she wanted to, but at the moment she peers down at The Nice Lady and the birds, wondering what she should do next.