"The little bird flies northwards"
"What are your secrets?"
"He flies upwind to find his way home"
"What kind of love does that do to a woman?"
"High beyond the mountains he makes his flight"
"What are you hiding, Kira?"
“High against the wind to find someone”
Kira woke up in the middle of the night with a racing heart. She did not remember her dream, but Eron's voice echoed in her mind mixed with the melody of a lullaby she hadn’t heard in a long time. That was a popular song that handarian mothers used to sing for their children, telling the story of the little bird that flew from the continent beyond the Mountains of the Sun to find a prince, one of Asira's descendants, and gets hurt on the way. The bird is rescued by an orphaned boy who takes care of his broken wing. The bird, g
