Corvus Lorne Blackwing: a story, (Paperback)

For most crows, life is a simple and ancient arrangement: roost together, forage together, survive together. The Murder of Ashenmere Wood has kept this covenant for longer than any bird can remember. There is safety in numbers, wisdom in the flock, and a place for every crow who knows his place. <p>Corvus Lorne Blackwing does not know his place. </p><p>He knows the shape of the wind above the chalk ridge at dusk. He knows what it feels like to hang motionless inside a thermal while ten thousand of his kind stream past below him toward home. He knows that there is something in the high air that none of the others have looked for - something that cannot be eaten, cannot be cached, cannot be explained to the Elder or defended before the Murder - and he knows, with a certainty that costs him everything, that he cannot stop looking for it. </p><p>Cast out from the only world he has ever known, Corvus begins a solitary education in the open sky. What starts as a crow's obsession with flight slowly reveals itself as something far older and stranger: a journey toward the outermost edge of what he is, and the discovery - quiet, devastating, complete - that the edge is not where he thought it was. </p><p>Corvus Lorne Blackwing is a fable for anyone who has ever felt the pull of something they could not name. It is a story about intelligence and what it is truly for. About the courage it takes to leave, and the greater courage it takes to return. About the difference between belonging to something and being confined by it. And about the particular kind of love that says I see what you are to a world that has forgotten. </p><p>Told in three parts - exile, ascent, and return - and written in the tradition of the great philosophical fables, this is a story for the crow in all of us: the dark, curious, ancient part that suspects, in its quietest moments, that there is more to the sky than getting from one place to another. </p><p>There always was. </p><p>We only had to look up.</p>

• Corvus Lorne Blackwing: a story, (Paperback)
• Author: Craig David Rihl
• ISBN: 9798181059412
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-15
• Page Count: 84