<div class="floatleft">(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg142/ElectricBadger/angel1-1.jpg)   <br/><div align="center"><em><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;">Muriel - Unknown</span></span></em></div></div>When Crane pulled her hand away, Muriel gave another grand stretch.  "Do mind your step, sweetling."<br/><br/>The front door opened to a flurry of black feathers and tufts of down drifting slowly from the attic.  More of the same were scattered through the courtyard along with a score of tiny, pulverized corpses.<br/><br/>Muriel smiled sweetly as the heavy doors closed behind the sparrow.