Sword of Shadows
“She looked around, disconcerted. Disturbing dreams clung to her awareness. She could not remember where she was.
Black and ivory feathers lunged at her, wings beating in her face. With a sharp cry, she scrambled backwards, her retreat cut short by a crate.
Before her stood a magpie, its feathery coat black as a starless night, downy breast white as snow. It strutted a few jerky steps, hopped onto her lap, and looked at her first with one amber eye, then the other. Talons pinched her leg...s through her worn skirt.
“Shoo!” She swatted at it with her hand.
The bird squawked and fluttered a few paces away. It bent to the ground, flipped a stone, straightened, and watched Adiana again.
“Cursed vermin!” A rock flung by one of the guards skidded across the dirt, just missing the magpie.
The bird opened its wings and leapt cawing toward the heavens, diminishing quickly into a small shadow against the slate sky.MoreLess
Black and ivory feathers lunged at her, wings beating in her face. With a sharp cry, she scrambled backwards, her retreat cut short by a crate.
Before her stood a magpie, its feathery coat black as a starless night, downy breast white as snow. It strutted a few jerky steps, hopped onto her lap, and looked at her first with one amber eye, then the other. Talons pinched her leg...s through her worn skirt.
“Shoo!” She swatted at it with her hand.
The bird squawked and fluttered a few paces away. It bent to the ground, flipped a stone, straightened, and watched Adiana again.
“Cursed vermin!” A rock flung by one of the guards skidded across the dirt, just missing the magpie.
The bird opened its wings and leapt cawing toward the heavens, diminishing quickly into a small shadow against the slate sky.MoreLess
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