Rumors and Hopes For A Trilogy, or A Tetralogy
After The Bird That Drinks Tears and The Bird That Drinks Blood, some readers wonder and hope that Lee would write the Bird series as a full tetralogy, because of an old tale told by the legendary Kitalger Hunters in The Bird That Drinks Tears:
There are four brother birds.
Their appetites are all different.
They are the bird that drinks water, the bird that drinks blood, the bird that drinks poison, and the bird that drinks tears.
The one that lives the longest of them is the bird that drinks blood.
Then, which one would live the shortest?
It is the bird that drinks tears, because he drinks tears of others.
The bird that drinks blood lives the longest, because he drinks what is so precious that no one wants to shed it out of their body.
The body sheds tears on its own. How harmful it must be, for the body to shed it so?
One that drinks such harmful thing would not live long.
But it is said; the bird that drinks tears would sing the most beautiful songs.
The bird that drinks blood lives the longest, because he drinks what is so precious that nobody wants to give out.
But because he stinks of blood no one goes near.
One part of the tale about the other two birds are told in The Bird That Drinks Blood:
- Poison is the gentlest and water is the sharpest. If you give poison, one falls asleep; but if you pour water, one springs up.
The bird that flies the fastest is the bird that drinks poison, and the bird that flies the slowest is the bird that drinks water.
Lee's fans voice their hopes online that Lee would at least write The Bird That Drinks Poison, if The Bird That Drinks Water isn't dramatic enough for a fantasy title. When asked about this in interviews, Lee denies any plans for another sequel on his part, saying "I don't know anything for now. I have no plans." In a 2008 interview, when asked "we understand that writing the "Bird" series has not been finished. Please let us know your future writing plans," Lee answered laughing: "there are lots of rumors About this 'Bird' series too. I never declared that I would write a series, but before I knew it, the new quartet or new saga has become the ambition of this typer's life. Well. If a story that I want to type comes up I will type it, if not I won't type it. I don't have any ambitious plan going 'I will type before I die!'"
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