“Chien woke in the dark, before sunrise, just as the rooster began to crow.”
“The Strange Bird’s first thought was of a sky over an ocean she had never seen, in a place far from the fire-washed laboratory from which she emerged, cage smashed open but her wings, miraculous, unbroken.”
“He only came back because Melvin said he would kill him if he didn’t pay off his debt by the end of the week.”
