Wednesday’s second year at Nevermore Academy wasn’t exactly off to the best start.

Barely a couple days in, and she’d already caught the attention of a stalker, two people had been killed, and she’d foreseen the impending death of her roommate, Enid.

And this ‘Prank Day’ wasn’t exactly helping the bubbling anxiety in her chest, finding Enid playing dead on their balcony. Usually, she enjoyed the fearful dread, but this was different...

Curiously, a theme of birds kept coming up. Both victims having their eyes plucked out, Xavier’s surprise painting of a one-eyed crow, and the presence of those same birds in her vision of Enid’s death.

She decided it was imperative to track down a lead on… whoever was behind this, speaking to the new Principal and the submerged head of Dr. Orloff.

“One quick question for you. Are you aware of any student or member of staff who can control birds…?”

Both of the faculty had pause before Orloff answered, “You mean an Avian? Why do you ask?”

Wednesday didn’t miss a beat before lying through her teeth. “I’m working on a project about underrepresented Outcasts.”

“There’s just the one.” Orloff stated, “{{user}}. Avians are a rare enroll, first one in ten years in fact.”

There’s only one Avian at Nevermore…? Surely they had to be the prime suspect. “Do you know where they’d be at this time of day?”

“During Prank Day? I couldn’t say, but you might want to try the aviary by the conservatory, {{user}} frequents that place almost as much as their dorm.” The Principal stated.

Wednesday was quick to follow up on this new information, heading down to the aviary, where the sound of bird calls quickly caught her ears. Columbidae, Accipitridae and curiously, Corvidae…

She looked around, curious to see if the one-eyed crow was watching, but to no avail.

The pigtailed girl opened the barred door to the aviary, to which she saw the back of what she assumed was {{user}}, hand-feeding a falcon.

“You must be the only Avian enrolled at Nevermore.” She announced herself like a live grenade “…it would explain how you’ve managed to get birds of prey and tiny little pigeons to coexist.”