Her Majesty's Aviary

[marcelop]

Her Majesty's Aviary is an ornithologist's guide to the (fictional) seasonally rotating collection of birds held by Empress Yezida the Third, the Radiant, the Dove of Yezid. It was created by Tanya X. Short, Marcelo Perez, and G.P. Lackey. However, the version for #nanogenmo is considered an in-progress alpha -- the team intends to continue working on several core improvements before the project is complete.

Source code link (Currently the source code project requires the paid plugin Odin Inspector. However, with a few modifications it is certainly possible to eliminate this requirement.)

Full book: Aviary

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SUMMER

This morning I saw a jellyfish outside my window, so I suppose it must be summer, and thus the first day of my holy task. I could barely sleep. Perhaps I should have started before the sun rose, as Cem was already in the Aviary working when I arrived; nevertheless, I shall surely best him.

The birds are distraught by the heat, and it seems the whole world must be sunlit. Already I crave the taste of chilled apricot from the Kitchenmaze, but I must fulfill my duties first.

~*~

Lilaceider

Gifted by the generosity of Sah-zade Murad.

It's a diminutive bird, about the size of a bowl, clad in glossy feathers. It has notable brown feet. This fowl produces a strange call when Her Majesty goes to sleep. It's dispirited, if I must report correctly.

It is kept in a glass cage. It exchanges gifts of seashells with Lilaceider.

I observe it is low-energy. It seems that it obsesses over its two eggs.

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Honeybrant

I have not been able to determine how it was acquired.

It appears to be a bird arrayed in vivid red feathers. I'm interested in its conspicuous tufted crest. It hunts Lilaceider without mercy. It looks this bird makes a melodious fluting during an eclipse, though I have not heard it.

I loathe its cage, perhaps because it is a little messy. I observe it is dispirited. It seems that it loves its two eggs.

It plays a kind of sport with Honeybrant, swinging small mushrooms, which the monarchy of Opex uses in naming a child.