The Cusp

Fragment: Summoning Magic
I'm in a room with a man and a woman, and they have to eat a live bird to perform a spell. The man catches the bird in his hand, and I think it's a little large to eat. I imagine trying to fit it in my mouth, and the imaginary bird claw gets caught on my bottom lip and hurts like hell. I'm surprised that an imaginary bird can hurt.

The mad puts the bird in his mouth, chews it up and swallows. He then tells the woman where to put the ingested bird, by a window, and two hell hounds appear. They look like flaming hyenas. THey couple leave the room and I follow, but the hell hounds get out. I worry that since I didn't summon them, they will turn on me. I order them back in the room, and they obey. I close the door and head off down the hall