. along with the avians the doves have spit back out after they’ve evoked their sense of righteousness upon them. It keeps the city looking clean, so the higher-classes don’t have to dirty their feathers thinking about the darker sides to our society.
K: but…why old corvids, too? (we followed that boat that took a bunch out to sea, why are they bringing them to this dungeon as well?)
R:…when my mother brought me down here for the first time, I wondered about that too. I had watched as the maimed were taken south every few weeks, under the cover of darkness, to be rehabilitated away from public eyes. But the old corvids didn’t go with them.