. . .

If you’ll look to your left, there’s a crow that could have saved Linus Evans. It’s a talking crow. More importantly, it’s a crow that loves people like Linus Evans and knows the secrets of the world.
It could have saved him from his awful fate; would have saved him, had they met.
There was even somebody for Emily, back then, although — well, I mean, she’d hardly need that, what with having Navvy Jim.
They were there, though, anyway, all the host of them.
In the days before Hans’ dominion they shone glorious and bright.