Jonathan Miles

And I found that sort of liberating, actually, to write that way.

Yeah, an extinct bird, actually.

I didn't want to spoil it.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry.

Yeah.

It comes early enough.

We can probably do that.

Well, Adi is on one of his first mornings on the island.

He awakens to seven goats who are outside the hut.

that he has an old sealer's hut on the island.

And he's torn about what to do.

His job is to shoot them.

But it feels so deeply inhumane, one word to say, sort of to slaughter visitors to your doorstop.

And finally, he becomes so just enraged by his own inability to take any action that he

He sort of has a temper tantrum and chases them off into the mangroves.

And there he finds on the ground a fluttering, he sees a fluttering of wings and picks up a small bird, light as an envelope, that clearly has a broken wing and carries it back to his hut and doesn't know what to do except to begin caring for it.

And it

He has a small, very small library of books that the Conservation Foundation that sent him there has equipped him with.

And he goes looking through the book to find out what kind of bird this is.