“Like I said, trouble.” Raven returned to the feathers. “Robert, what do peacocks mean to you? More importantly, what do they mean to Fiona?”
“Well I'm not sure,” Robert replied.
“It's unlucky to bring the feathers into the house, I know that” My wife piped in.
“So they say, the evil eye and all that. But their context is more complicated here. The Greeks called peacocks Persian birds, associated them with Hera, Goddess of Women and marriage.”
“How does that help us?”
“I'm not sure, but that's our starting point, not the photograph.”
