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"A swan’s language is a swirl of currents, in water and air: a swan’s body reads a kind of literature in the waves and clouds before launching herself between their lines." 𐙚⋆°🦢｡⋆♡

"But nor was Arcadia without its beauties. They saw a bird with gauzy,
rainbow wings, and a tail like long, trailing fiddleheads; they saw a thorned
tree in bright, fragrant bloom, hung with golden fruit. Sometimes, far in the
distance, they heard the sound of horns and harps." ‧₊˚🌈✩ ₊˚🫧⊹♡

“You’re all the family I need.”
“But,” said Ysabel, “I’m not all the family you want.”

"Folk said that when they sang together, you could feel grammar in the air. If they sang a stormy sky, the day clouded over. If they sang adventure, blood rose to the boil. If they sang a sweet sadness, everything looked a little silver from the corners of the eyes."