The in the paper began to focus around the room.
"It looks like a room for the staff," Kura said. "It's large, but not ornate."
"I think I agree with you," Shirigume replied. "And I think there's someone there..."
The image shifted to a corner of the room, and stopped upon something moving, something large. The object was blurred and the bird's vision was attempting to focus. But just before the picture became clear, it suddenly went blank, and the paper itself suddenly combusted alight into a fire, then burned to ash. Charlie fell backwards from the fire. Even Kura and Shirigume were shocked...
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The fate of the paper sparrow was revealed to have been sliced neatly in half, the pieces fell off the balcony, one to the floor, the other over into the mercy of the ocean breeze. Above the window, Desoto reeled in the chain on his sickle and then disappeared into the window above...