A crow that Luna conjures accidentally as her magic starts to erupt in the lead-up to her 13th birthday. It caws, but Luna understands that these noises mean things in human speech. The crow acts as a conscience of sorts (albeit a foul-mouthed one), and tries to guide Luna along the safest path as she journeys to try to save Xan.
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The Crow Character Timeline in The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The timeline below shows where the character The Crow appears in The Girl Who Drank the Moon. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 23. In Which Luna Draws a Map
A crow looks Luna in the eye. Luna greets it and though the crow caws in reply,...
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...at him, but he says that he just wants to hang out with her. The crow caws, and Luna can feel him thinking her name. Luna climbs to the top of...
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...horizon and the world turning toward her. She draws until she hears Fyrian and the crow yelling at her. She wakes with a start and sees that it’s noon. She assures...
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Chapter 25. In Which Luna Learns a New Word
...headache right behind her forehead. Her temperature fluctuates and her hands seem to glow. The crow caws “Luna” and Luna insists she’s fine, but she knows it’s a lie. She steps...
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Chapter 28. In Which Several People Go into the Woods
...a note from Xan and angrily tears it up before reading all of it. The crow caws at her to not do anything stupid, but Luna informs the crow that she’s...
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Chapter 30. In Which Things Are More Difficult than Originally Planned
...can feel the mountain churning. She trips and falls into a muddy ravine and the crow tells her he told her so. Inside of Luna, she feels something happening. She’s always...
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Chapter 32. In Which Luna Finds a Paper Birds. Several of Them, Actually.
Luna wakes up well after sunrise. The crow caws its relief that she’s alive as Luna checks her injuries and realizes that she’s...
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The crow is beside himself with worry as Luna picks her way through a river of embers....
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Chapter 34. In Which Luna Meets a Woman in the Wood
The paper birds watch Luna, and Luna nervously greets them. The crow, beside himself, flies around. Luna understands that the birds know her and are somehow connected...
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As Sister Ignatia and Luna look at each other, the paper birds and the crow don’t move. Sister Ignatia seems to look old and then young. She asks Luna if...
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Chapter 36. In Which a Map Is Rather Useless
Luna runs in panic. The crow caws that he was wrong about the paper birds. Finally, Luna stops and says that...
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...often. She says out loud that Xan is a witch, and she is too. The crow is unimpressed and says that this is obvious. Luna suddenly remembers all the times that...
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Chapter 39. In Which Glerk Tells Fyrian the Truth
As night falls, Luna invites the sleepy crow to rest in her hood. Luna isn’t tired and can’t wait for the moon to...
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Chapter 41. In Which Several Paths Converge
...She races toward Luna’s blue, and the paper birds find her. On the ridge, the crow crawls out of Luna’s hood and then flies ahead to see what Luna can’t see....
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Chapter 42. In Which the World Is Blue and Silver and Silver and Blue
Luna hears the crow warn her but can’t stop running. She drinks the moonlight and it makes her feel...
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Chapter 44. In Which There Is a Change of Heart
...the madwoman. Her heart says, “she is here.” The woman takes Luna’s hand as the crow sits on Luna’s shoulder and the paper birds rise. They hear footsteps and Luna sees...
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Chapter 45. In Which a Simply Enormous Dragon Makes a Simply Enormous Decision
...again, so he hovers above and says that Luna is on the ridge with the crow, whom Fyrian despises. Glerk point out that Fyrian can’t despise anyone, but Fyrian continues that...
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