Here’s a bit from Arrival of the birds which I just finished writing on Monday! Technically it’s still a WIP because I still need to finish editing it soooo here’s a deleted scene from Chapter 7 I think? I don’t want to post any actual scenes from the remaining three chapters so you’ll have to settle for Simon being a nerd about evolution - Baz’s POV
“Okay, yeah, you were obsessed with dinosaurs. How does that lead up to birds?” I ask. He looks at me funny.
“I mean, birds are essentially dinosaurs.”
“They’re what?”
“Modern birds evolved from dinosaurs,” he shrugs like that’s not the weirdest piece of information ever.
“I thought dinosaurs were reptiles.”
“I mean, evolutionally speaking, birds are reptiles as well.”
“What the fuck, Snow?” No. I refuse to believe this information. Birds are birds and lizards are lizards. Why must evolution ruin everything good? (including the dinosaurs) (or I guess that was a meteor) (honestly, I’m just waiting for Snow to tell me that humans are fish or that dinosaurs were actually wiped out by a financial crisis – nothing would surprise me anymore)
“Birds and lizards are uh… well, they both fall in a group called diapsids which um… well, their skull is shaped a certain way. Now diapsids then branch out into different smaller groups and one of those groups are lizards and snakes, and the other one are birds and dinosaurs. It’s a bit easier to picture it if you have a phylogenetic tree. I can draw it for you at the hotel,” he offers.
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