A girl named Mia is playing with her younger brother Little Davey and his friends when she sees a raven at the edge of the forest they’re forbidden to enter. Davey pressures her to follow them in and she does, but not before picking up a feather the bird leaves. They get to a rope that swings out over a ravine and Davey insists on trying it, even though Mia worries it’s too big and he might fall. To her surprise he makes it, and the others take turns trying it while she pretends to be a princess and thinks about all the times she tried to use “magic” to change Davey into a girl, or someone she could play with.  Over the next few days, she follows a trail of the ravens’ feathers into the forest and picks them up, thinking that she can make Davey a cloak that will change him into a bird and let him fly. But when she gives it to him, he makes fun of her and she sees that all the magic has gone from the cloak. In frustration, she throws it over the cliff. Davey’s friends come and make fun of her for not trying the rope swing, but Davey defends her and says he’ll do it himself. He runs for the swing, but this time he doesn’t make it and falls into the ravine. The other children run away, but Mia carefully climbs down the cliff to where her brother is clearly dead. She recovers the cloak and puts it over him, then runs home and starts crying unintelligibly to her mother. To her horror, Davey appears at the door only moments later, wearing the cloak with a dead expression in his eyes. Over the next few weeks, Mia sees that Davey is alive, but he’s not the same person anymore. One day, their mother begs them to go out together, sensing that something is wrong with Davey. Mia tries to get him to acknowledge that he died, but he only makes a sinister sound like the ravens and she realizes that the birds never had good intentions. Even though she’s often wished Davey could change, now she just wants him back.