#ScribesAndMakers Do birds ever feature in your work? Give an example. In my newest book, *A Familiar Problem*, the protagonist is supposed to get a familiar, but doesn't want something "trite, like a cat, or stupid, like a bird." Instead, he ends up captured as the familiar of a demon who trains him up to enter him in an illegal familiar-fighting tournament. Some other familiars are birds. They don't seem particularly stupid, in spite of the protagonist's prejudice. https://waterdragonpublishing.com/product/familiar-problem/