In the book the character, Abel, tells a story about a parliament of rooks. Abel reveals that the parliament would surround a single rook, with that one telling a story. If the story was not liked, the parliament would attack and kill the speaker. I always thought that story was so interesting and it stuck with me. I even did a painting of it last year, that you can see on my website. In the painting, all the rooks were surrounding the one, listening to what he had to say. This painting is the result of a bad story.
