Bestiary Observations

“Lo, the mighty cockatrice, proud-feathered sphere, known as much for its ill humor as its dire rotundity.

The great naturalist Merlose once remarked: ‘…live they in the sands and other arid climes, whereabouts they moveth in a rolling fashion most peculiar. Subsist they principally on small creatures and vermin, for the incapacitation of which they disgorge a sticky saliva, thence devouring captured morsels only when appetite moves them.

Swollen sacs containing airs are found under the surface of the skin, and when inflated, theses lifting the creature upon drafts unseen, whence to espy suitable prey.”