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well, and birds are gathering around her house, so Cassie convinces Crunch and Grind to visit and they take her back to town to be looked after.While they are carrying her through the forest, Olga the goat escapes and Cassie is forced to chase her through the forest to the ruins of the castle surrounded by dense trees.There they find a gathering of the Schwartzwolken, and are forced to flee for their lives.Then comes a huge and deadly an attack on the house as the birds get in through the open roof, and Cassie’s father is forced to use bellows filled with arsenic to kill the leader of the Schwartzwolken.The birds are defeated and the angel can rises safely at last. Though there’s a last-minute twist, and it’s not Raphael who leaves, but Cassie’s mother...