On October 3rd, 2017, my step mom was driving my siblings and I to school. The landscape was coated with fog. As we were driving, my step mom saw a pelican at the edge of the lake, "a spot of white shining through the fog". That sparked the idea for a story. Here's what came of it.

The Legend of the Silver Heron has been passed down for generations, spread through the students who come to the Silver Heron Camp in Mist Valley. As the story goes, there is a bird called the Silver Heron who lives in Mist Valley, its soul completely pure and incapable of hatred or bad intentions. It is the embodiment of pure innocence. No one need fear it, for it can do no harm if you do no harm to it. When Léanin ventures into the Valley as part of the Cinder High 9th grade, she is met with a series of events that lead her toward an alternate story, one she must discover on her own.

What is the Bird of Mist Valley? Will it really give you magic if you touch it?

Can it really not kill you?