The Death of a Cockatoo

i'm confident that there'll be a spike in sales directly after you hear this chapter. Half way up the great stone staircase which rises from the dim and vaulting hall of ochnasar, there is a tall stained glass window. In the height of its gothic arch, is sheltered a circular panel where a white cockatoo, his breast transfixed by an arrow, is swooning in death. Around the circumference, threaded through sharp green leaves and twisted branch s, runs the legend moriens sed in victus, dying but unconquered. Here it was that janet was found, oddly attired in her mother's black lace evening dress, twisted and slumped in

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