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[wowhawk]

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They stood and watched while he walked from post to post. Then they stood and watched while he walked back and counted them again. Then he spent some time looking at his fingers.

’Fifty-one?’ said Granny helpfully.

’I don’t understand it, mistress.’

’You’d better count them by types, then.’

This produced a count of nineteen lappet-faced worriers where there should have been eighteen.

’Perhaps one flew in because it saw the others,’ said Oats. ’Like pigeons.’

’It doesn’t work like that, sir,’ said the falconer.

’One of ’em won’t be tethered,’ said Granny. ’Trust me.’

They found it at the back, slightly smaller than the other worriers, hanging meekly from its perch. Fewer birds could sit more meekly than the Lancre wowhawk, or lappet-faced worrier, a carnivore permanently on the lookout for the vegetarian option. It spent most of its time asleep in any case, but when forced to find food it tended to sit on a branch out of the wind somewhere and wait for something to die. When in the mews the worriers would initialIy perch like other birds and then, talons damped around the pole, doze off peacefully upside down. Hodgesaargh bred them because they were found only ’in Lancre and he liked the plumage, but all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

Granny reached out towards it.

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dunno if this quote has a meaning for mbx or even any meaning at all.
just hoping.
nevertheless a bloody good text.

[wowhawk]

They`re shy birds ...

[wowhawk]

You could say ...