The Sunspire hummingbirds

The skin on his throat was still tender, scabbed over, and generally painful. But he was healing, and this new blemish would likely set him more easily apart from his twin. Saleem did not know if that was a good or a bad omen, only that it felt as though he had been defeated. Until he was able to find and redeem himself would he be truly happy. When Mother all but dragged them to a new area, Saleem was downtrodden and grumpy, flopping on the ground and disengaging with the activities of the day.