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“
The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.
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― The Taxidermist's Daughter
― The Taxidermist's Daughter
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Its wings flicker white, and in the brief soar between roof and pump, the sun catches in its feathers, revealing rainbows floating atop the black and blue fibers. The colors roll down its body like the muscle in a great predator’s shoulders, and yet the lift of its wings and kite-like flicker of its long tail are lighter than air.
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― Blackpines: The Magpie Witch: The North Star in Eclipse
― Blackpines: The Magpie Witch: The North Star in Eclipse
