Meet the creatures behind the story

Four interior plates, black and white first — the way they print in paperback — then in color.

Splits at the torso and flies at night — but the story in Book One is about the line she won't cross.

It leads travelers in circles — then tells a better version of the walk afterward.

A small, plain bird. The scary part isn't the bird — it's what it means when you stop hearing it.

No single version of the Kapre is the real one — name, tree, size, even the cigar all change by region.