Complex sentence: In Catherynne M. Valente's "The Orphan's Tales", "In the Cities of Coin and Spice", the manticores are born of the Upas tree as helpless babies, and are frequently captured and caged.
Split into simpler sentences: In Catherynne M. Valente's "The Orphan's Tales", "In the Cities of Coin and Spice". The manticores are born of the Upas tree as helpless babies, and are frequently captured and caged.