“Cross him and you will learn what the ground looks like from very, very far up.”
A Sky bird of The Talon Court
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He has held the killing sky for eleven years, which in eagle reckoning is roughly forever. He took the throne the way he settles everything: by out-waiting his predecessor, perched across the valley for four days until the old king left to eat. No blood. Just patience.
He presides over the court's disputes from the highest crag; verdicts arrive as long silences followed by a single nod. The silence is the deliberation.
The court whispers he is choosing a successor — not by combat, but by a waiting contest no challenger has yet survived.
“This is how the High King took the throne: he perched across the valley and waited four days, and the old king left to eat. But the older eagles say he was not watching the old king at all — he was staring past the mountains, at something none of them could see. Asked what it was, Aurelian said: 'The beginning. I was looking at the beginning.' He has never elaborated.”
Aurelian stared past the mountains for four days. The old king left to eat.
The raptors: eagles, hawks, falcons, and kites — the apex predators who own the daylight sky and settle every dispute by out-waiting it.
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