The Sentinels “hope” is the thing with feathers

surprised at the other's words, velen did not allow this to show upon his countenance, but waited only a moment. "i am told my grandfather, lasher, was a witch. that he called the storms. that he came to my mother after he died. donnelaith was beloved, for he was kind, and his wolves were kind."
he was only recounting what his mother would have said about the place — velen had no true tie to it, only the stirring of magicks in his chest, and the knowledge that lasher's bones lay somewhere beneath the sifted ash. "i was born far from here. i only saw donnelaith when it was like this. but my mother says it was beautiful, that those large trees towered high. and that they buried lasher in a fairy-ring here, before it came to ruin."