Listening carefully, she has his full attention now - and it is not only due to her 'prowess' as a storyteller, or due to the subject matter (and the 'main character' of the one who was born winged) - and his gaze is focused on her hands as she works on him.

"Interesting that he would offer himself as a potential sacrifice," he says. "Perhaps not out of a desire to gain the appreciation of his tribe...could have been due to the fact that he felt as if nothing could be worse than the feeling of being outcast."

Not even death. Death might have been a relief...