"Birds are great. Witches all have them - Path wanted to be a little dragon, maybe, but we didn't feel properly a witch till he found a bird he wanted to stay."

"Or a firefly. A dragon or a firefly," says Path.

"Or a firefly, but I would have been so annoyed if you'd been a bug. They're decorative but they can't do anything."

"I liked to glow. But I like being an owl, too."