carrier pigeons were outcompeted by owls
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Magic, Dorcas' mother teaches her, is the rushing force of rivers and storms bottled up inside your chest. It is the wonder and peace of the wide blue open sky. Magic is a vulture, circling and circling inside until it dives, and it must be tamed, harnessed by your fingertips and pressed gently into the world as a single unbroken thread. Magic is not to make crowds applaud and fall starry-eyed at your feet. The best magic is the kind which barely seems like magic at all.
Dorcas disagrees.
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Dorcas Meadowes is born in 1877 and dies in 1981. A lot can happen in a lifetime of 104 years.Series
- Part 1 of carrier pigeons were outcompeted by owls
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Dorcas' initials are carved under the countertop at the Hog’s Head - right under the lip, a rough pair of letters scratched out with a stag handle pocket knife. Grooves in the wood, rubbed smooth by her fingers. She’d always sat under the rafters, where the pigeons spattered the floors with filth and feathers, for nigh on seventy years.
If the funeral had been up to him, well, Aberforth would’ve done it differently.
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Dorcas is dead. Aberforth mourns.
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- Part 2 of carrier pigeons were outcompeted by owls