premise: Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind, one hand at her throat, the other yanking at her hair. She screeched and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida.
hypothesis: the bird was Carmellina's true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress