Page 20 - HP2A 003 The Children of Lir

Finola reached there first and took

her brothers under her wings all

wet, shivering and exhausted.

Many such nights followed and

in one terrible winter storm.

when they nested together on

carricknarone the water froze into

solid ice around them and their

feet and wings were so froze into of their wings and the feathers of

solid ice around them and their feet their breasts clinging there. When

and wings were so frozen to the the ice melted and they swam out

rock that when they moved they into the sea, their bodies smattered

felt the skin of their feet, the quills with pain until the feathers grew