Chapter Six
Apr 20, 2020
The Fire Bird
A docile creature which is often mistaken for its more aggressive cousin, the phoenix. A story dating back three centuries tells of a fisherman who's village was saved from a rogue wave after a meeting with one such bird and heeding its advice to escape. Many used to think the birds communicated these preminitions as some crows and blackbirds do, through mimicry and song, but later research suggests it might be through a form of telepathy. From the previously mentioned tale, many wealthy king, emperors and merchants have long sought to own one of these distinctive birds, in hopes they would impart advice on the future to them. These birds however, do not last long in confinement and grow dull and eventually die if kept in cages for long periods of time. As such, merchants now track these birds down, seeking out the 'eyes' in their tail feathers to set and sell in jewllery as they continue to blink even after being cut and make for relatively attractive and expensive trinkets.
{Thank you for 1k views and I'm sorry this is so late! New job and a rewrite (a lot of this section had to be cut and reworked to make it all 'flow'). But hopefully I'm back now and stuck in quarantine too so fingers crossed the 4 month gap wont return!}
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