T-Bird and the Flying Serpents
T-Bird would rather leap into the Mystery than stand safely beside it. Unfortunately, the Mystery has teeth.
Returning to SHIWA-the School of Human Interaction With Animals-with a guitar, a restless heart, and more questions than good judgment, sixteen-year-old T-Bird is still haunted by the disappearance of his friend Fawn and the missing students of Caterpillar Clan. He wants answers. He wants proof. Mostly, he wants to know what waits beyond the edges of the ordinary world. Then the impossible starts answering back.
Following strange signs through the Wyoming wilderness, T-Bird encounters ghosts, hidden passageways, little people, ancient underground cities, mysterious animal guides, and enormous flying serpents that seem less like monsters than mirrors. Dragons appear in dreams, visions, caves, and fire-each revealing something T-Bird would rather avoid seeing in himself. Because the deeper he travels into the hidden worlds, the deeper he travels into his own.
T-Bird has always been drawn to darkness: mystery, rebellion, grief, anger, danger, the parts of life other people would rather ignore. But accepting his shadow is different from being ruled by it. As swagger gives way to humility, he begins to recognize that sensitivity can be strength, darkness can hold wisdom, and even the qualities he has been taught to reject may contain hidden gifts.
His search for Fawn leads him through the boundaries between life and death, courage and recklessness, love and fear, the physical world and the unseen one. Along the way, T-Bird must face what he has done, what he cannot control, and who he might become if he stops trying to divide himself into good parts and bad ones. The underworld is calling. This time, he intends to answer.
He searches for the impossible. The impossible finds him first.
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