The Horned Crow

Be kind to the crows. You don't know who they used to be.

Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash

They never looked right to Ceri. Birds weren’t supposed to have horns; tufts of feathers that looked like them were fine, like the ones that some owls had. Tiny ram or goat horns on a crow though? They were strange, too strange to be natural.

Depending on who you asked, the birds were omens of grave misfortune, one of th…