The World of Shadowglen · Book Two
What Henrietta
Knew
Foggy went looking for a simple answer. Henrietta McCluck had other ideas.
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Seeing is not always understanding.
Foggy is certain Henrietta McCluck knows something important about Humans. She lives among them, watches them every day, and seems entirely too calm about the Rider and her enormous purple machine, Amaranthine.
So Foggy and Chicky Dee set out beyond the Crossroads to find her. Foggy expects secrets. He expects answers. He may even be considering a new official title.
What he finds is a watchful chicken who refuses to make the world simple for him.
Henrietta teaches Foggy to look past first impressions, pay attention to what creatures do when no one is watching, and understand that someone can mean no harm and still cause fear or hurt. By the time he returns to Shadowglen, Foggy has discovered something far more useful than certainty: the courage to leave room for what he does not know yet.
“Seeing a thing does not always mean understanding it.”
A thoughtful story about observation, assumptions, empathy, and the useful little words: “I don’t know yet.”
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