CHAPTER TWELVE
The Birdmen are going extinct?” said Bait. He looked up at Aeolus with puzzled eyes. “Why?”
Aeolus shifted uncomfortably on the branch. Despite having just slain a boss monster, he looked extremely uncomfortable discussing what must have been a very serious topic for him. “Do you know the history of the Birdman Tribe?”
We shook our heads collectively and I said, “No, we don’t.”
“I don’t have time to go into great detail about it,” said Aeolus, waving his hand like he was brushing off a fly buzzing in his ears. “To sum it up, the Birdman were once ordinary humans who used magic to fuse ourselves with the Great Eagles of the Tall Mountains. This resulted in the creation of the Birdman Tribe, a race of beings who are equally bird and equally human. We have human intelligenc
