The day before yesterday, we entered the mountains to prospect for ore. Upon reaching a flight of stone steps, we saw an object half-buried in the fallen leaves. It turned out to be a mechanical bird. Its wings were broken, its eyes were dim, and it was covered in mud. There is no telling how many years it had been abandoned there.
Xiaoba, who was traveling with us, examined it for a long while and noted that despite the damage, the mechanisms inside were quite extraordinary. He sat down right there and spent a good while taking it apart and fixing it. Finally, when he reattached its feathers, the little bird actually flapped its wings twice and flew up again, landing on Xiaoba's shoulder and refusing to come down.
Xiaoba said that since it's been fixed, we might as well let it fly back on its own. We hope the Faction Master can find a safe place for it, so it won't have to wander the wilderness anymore.
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