was disturbed. “Maybe it was able to fly away after all.” But he knew, by the way it had dropped from the sky, it was either dead or severely injured. He thought about the second raven’s unheard-of behavior, diving steeply after the first, which mystified and intrigued him.

    But not nearly so much as what he had seen on the first bird, convinced something was astride it.

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