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I hope no one expected me to not seize the chance and take that title a bit more literally.
I still need bird puns in those books seriously.
Anyway, on the art: Slacked with the clothing and did weird things with the shadows, but am rather proud of the wings, which actually turned out how I wanted them to. Which is rare with me.
Also one of the main reasons I'm uploading this as the first of my three entries - I might finally stop fiddling with this, because I always keep finding some small detail I could change. I'll fiddle this piece to death otherwise.
(also I have no idea how to upload images to AO3. Is there any way to fix the rather low resolution?)
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