Wrote 196 words. I'll be doing a rolling word system each time I submit. I'll mention what/if I wrote after submitting along with what I wrote for that current day (gives a better word count, but it allows me to submit earlier when I -might- write a little more later). I'll also try to give samples of what I wrote each time.

What I wrote:

Piercing through the wispy fog, its eyes glowed a neon green. With a two-colored coat of dark raspberry purple and glistening peach, the starling darted up a branch. The morning light wedged through white bluffs, scraping out pipes of light that streamed through the sky.

Gould deliriously gazed at its beauty. His bulky frame leaned beside a rock overlooking a mountain pass. It led to an inn with a pool of blood and two bodies near its bar.

Hearing a bird call, the starling reversed itself and cocked its head towards the source. It seemed to pause just long enough to decide on hopping up another branch. Once there, it reversed course again and looked about, oblivious to Gould's presence just feet away.

What a graceful creature, Gould thought as his mind took a dark turn to the bodies on the inn's pine floor. He had thought the same thing before his brothers had…

He looked away from the starling to the pass he was responsible for watching. He felt his entire body lift off the ground a little when he saw the posse. It was enough to frighten the starling, causing it fly far away.