Preview: Book of Avian, Chapter 1; "I killed him, and just watched him struggle for breath, every moment burned into the back of my mind. I was in shock, my ears still ringing, one of the others rushed me, and then another, and another. They shouldn't have done it, blinded by rage, they should have just left me alone. One after the other, by some unknowable reflex, they were torn to pieces. Blood raining from their severed limbs, painting the sands a deep red, quenching its insatiable thirst."