Chapter 1
PART ONE
The age of growing and dying, and of a crimson thread of promise tied gently to necks.
"Oh, how she had longed to stretch her wings and soar amongst the clouds once more, not a sound to be heard but the roar of savage wind against her skull." A previously caged and mistreated crow travels to her homelands in the north, fleeing the colony of black-skinned captors who believe her kind can grant any wish. A child, blessed by Fate's great strings, attempts to make the journey to find the freed bird on her mother's dying wish.