Nenjo and the Magic Jewel

The tale the magpies told

A sparrow from the hot dusty plains once flew off to meet her cousins who lived by a lake high up in the Himalayas. When she arrived, her cousins were having a good chat with their friends, a pair of yellow-billed blue magpies. “You’re just in time, have a snack?” they twittered cheerfully, tossing her a juicy caterpillar. “Ting and Jong here were about…