User:Damberson/sandbox

Plot
The books begins with a young Sam Damon, eighteen years old i

Origin of title
The title is derived from a Persian poem:
 * And so in the Libyan fable it is told,
 * That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
 * Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
 * "With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
 * Are we now stricken".
 * — Aeschylus