[Miranda_]

"She'd be more worried if they did take you. You're prime for being taken, they might even have watched you before you met us. They only take kids who are alone, so you were lucky you met us."

Maris settled back into cat form, and sat back on Rian's lap. "It's true, you know. And no-one knows what happens to the kids that the Blackbirders take, just that they don't ever come back."