Birds of Paradise Research & information and a rekindled love for

and a rekindled love for her hometown

in the city of Menzoberranzan

Roskies as “a civilization responding to its own destruction

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Birds of Paradise Research & information and a rekindled love forIn the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the disappearance of their ineffably beautiful daughter, Felice, who ran away when she was thirteen. Now, after five years of modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach, Felice is about to turn eighteen. Her family? Avis, an exquisitely talented pastry chef; Brian, a corporate real estate attorney; and her brother, Stanley,