The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

by Jeff VanderMeer

the companion defiant, urging the last on, and blessing the bird that had caught her, for it was only acting as to its nature and there was no cruelty in that.

the two birds sang one to the other, the dead communicating to the dead in that intimate language.

I don't think I have ever stayed up this late for a book or cried so hard over a book