Location:Virescent Expanse — Confederate Territory
Date/Time:TC1854.05.21
The bird ate him on the fourteenth day.
Not the first bird. That had been on the sixth day — a canopy predator with talons the length of his entire body and a beak designed for cracking nuts that were, apparently, similar enough in size and coloring to a small silver snake that the distinction was beneath the bird's attention. He'd survived that encounter through a combination of formation-enhanced scale hardening and the bird's subsequent discovery that star-metal was not, in fact, a nut, and that attempting to crack it produced a sensation in the beak that discouraged further experimentation.
The fourteenth-day bird was the same bird.
