(In related news, I’ve spent the past fifteen minutes looking up raven behaviour and raven calls for the next Taupe-Wainscot, and can inform you all with some level of certainty that ravens are cute as the dickens and twice as clever. I would not be particularly surprised that all the Neathy tricks to turn ravens into poetry-reciting prophets and wing-ed spymasters turn out to be just things that ravens can actually do.)