Coalcloud's Song: A Remembrance
                  A Song Of the Gryphons
                  As Sung By Snowsnapper
    Out of the falling sun, the stars come riding,
    Riding, riding, out of the fallen day.
    And gryphon voices lift, lift in remembrance,
    To the one who saved us, the one we remember.

    We remember how Sunglyph fell, fell by treachery,
    Leaving a pair of sons as bright as new stones.
    One was dust on amber, and bright amber eyes,
    And he is the one of whom we do not speak.

    But the other was gray, as gray as his name.
    Coalcloud, he was called, a name of shadows.
    But in his eyes, blue as summer, there was light,
    Light of truth and faith unsmudged by doubt.

    He argued for peace once, for peace with the unicorns
    That ravage the land and destroy the freedom.
    But in the end he became dedicated, committed to war,
    Leading us on the sky-paths he had already flown.

    He swooped down when his brother would not,
    And thus came to win himself a place in legend.
    He gripped the silver cage full of young life,
    And flew it to the place of safety.

    He was a gryphling still, a gryphling in heart,
    But a mind like crystal gazed out from the eyes.
    It scattered light, blue on blue as summer sky,
    Blazing brighter in those last days of existence.

    All know how he fell, how the Traitor fell,
    How he used his death to bring his brother low.
    The proud amber wings that had beat for unicorns
    Now were tangled and broken, sprawled on the ground.

    With them he lay, our Savior blue-eyed,
    Now with a smile wreathing his golden beak, peace
    In his gaze, and his wings still as stone.
    Thus he slipped into the sun's rising light.

    And thus at sunset we remember him, remember what he
    Was, and what he was not. We think he flies
    Some heaven among the stars, not visible to us.
    Certainly he looks down on this world, and smiles.