In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distantfuture, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who livessomewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She hasthe name 'Hummingbird' in big letters on all her clothes, but she hasnever seen a real hummingbird. She has never seen any living animal or bird at all. The Book of Remembering says that there were once manyanimals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning, along, long time ago . . .
In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distantfuture, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who livessomewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She hasthe name ´Hummingbird´ in big letters on all her clothes, but she hasnever seen a real hummingbird. She has never seen any living animal or bird at all. The Book of Remembering says that there were once manyanimals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning, along, long time ago . . .
