The raggedy amalgamated bird didn’t look like it’d preened in a long time. Kretchket instinctively took a big step back, in case the bird sneezed. A sick bird is an ostracized one, but Kretchket needed this one’s information ( Read more... )

In the moors and bogs of the North, birdkind was once a fragmented, anarchic lot, disorganized and easily preyed upon by snakes, mammals and men ( Read more... )