Shadewood let not light see my black and deep desires

"...i've seen ones pale and dark and crimson, and to all i was sign or symbol! yonder, you should've been there for the small red one, who i frightened into dipping his tail - which is how they show terror. imagine, how-"

i'm done

a smile still on her beak, wings in the midst of gesturing, she looked down and to the side, where her brother's voice had come from.

"done? ach, brother, but of course you are! i said an egg's time, and it's been. go fly now, find yourself wife or another spouse. fly west with my good wishes!"

she was full of childish mirth.