Osman Intro

Osman O'Foley was a relatively young man, given it's age.
For centuries the being that was now proclaiming itself as Osman O'Foley had inhabited these woods as everything 
from a hawk to a woodlouse, but it was as a woodfowl that it had found it's true calling.
While many of it's incarnations had lasted little more than days, like Nuttsy the squirrel, some had lasted 
months or years like Perry the python, Reginald the owl or Nuttsy the squirrel (Squirrels were not known for their
imaginative nomenclature) and then there was Harriet the woodfowl matriach. 
For years Harriet's brood dominated the woodlands, scratching and nesting where they pleased, and her life was
as perfect as life gets for a woodfowl. Then in time Harriet was old, confused, one stormy night she heard an owl,
she was sure of it and even as she broke the cover of the bush they were using for shelter it remembered the time it had spent as an owl and it knew exactly what to do. Dart left, Right, veer left and....it was a clean kill and
the dance was complete, immaculate, but as the night closed in and the familiar embrace of the earth began to reform it's being, it began to wonder if there was more to eternity than this.
So it ceased to exist.
And Osman O'Foley awoke, a relativeley young man sat upright in a clearing in the woods who was not quite 
sure how'd he'd gotten there...