Through a feather CHAPTER III After a few months, having come to the coast of the North Sea, Osondel visited the main cities and villages on the fishy shoreline, from Nhir Miuok to Ru Nastirit, but nobody seemed to know about the creature portrayed in the drawing that the Pirin King showed to traders, hunters and travelers he met on his path. Nonetheless he chanced to meet an old priestess of Foladar, with whom he talked for a long while, thereby finding out that his foster-father had not been the first child given by Heaven through a feather of the sandoahis bird. During the millennia, at least ten times the God of the air had performed that miracle as a sign of mercy toward his faithful women who could not bear children. “How do you know about this?”, my father asked the priestess,

