Shiverwings
Observed by: Miv
Small, luminous creatures — no larger than a hand — that gather in cold air before storms.
They are not insects, though they fly. They are not birds, though they have something like feathers. They produce a faint, blue-white light that intensifies as the temperature drops, and they move in swirling patterns that some observers have described as purposeful.
Halveth keeps a shiverwing count. When more than a hundred gather above the lake at dusk, a storm is coming within two days. The count has not been wrong in recorded memory.
They do not seem to eat. They do not seem to sleep. They appear when the air turns cold and they vanish when it warms. Where they go is unknown. Miv spent three weeks trying to follow a dispersing group and reported only that they rose higher and higher until they were indistinguishable from stars.
They make a sound — a faint, high vibration at the edge of hearing. In large numbers, it becomes a hum that some find beautiful and others find deeply unsettling.