![]() ![]() ![]() I’d never felt unsafe in the city before, but I’d be a fool not to recognize that a portion of the wing’s growing resentment was aimed at the crown. I lifted the hood of my cloak, swallowing against the tightness in my throat. “No one’s going to hurt-” I stopped at the look on her face, nausea turning in my stomach. The void inside me slowly filled with the black emotions that shone in every pair of eyes around us: despair, anger, apathy. The streets, once bustling with people and lined with tables of glass figurines and brightly colored pottery, now echoed with the sound of our horses’ hooves as they kicked up dust.Ī cloud hung over the kingdom, like the one that haunted me. They stood like ancient tombs, forgotten in the face of war and starvation. Shame burned my cheeks, and I slowed my horse outside the charred remains of a row of shops. Gone was the world I knew, and I’d let it be taken. Gone were the feathers that would drift from the sky like fallen leaves, snatched from the air by young couples to wish upon. ![]() Gone were the deep cries of earth crows and the shouts of children as the earth rumbled at the whim of the crows’ power. A dog dug through trash in the shadows of an alley, more skeleton than animal. Signs advertised crow talons and singed feathers recovered from the flames. ![]() The broad streets built for massive crows seemed lined with beggars, hidden in the dark spaces between shops or else pressed against buildings with cloths laid out before them. ![]()
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