The Wings of Fear

The Wings of Fear was a serial from the pages of Bunty, concerning young Kelly Mason and her rather peculiar cousin Leonie, who had come to live with Kelly's family after her leg was injured and her father killed in a climbing accident. Leonie had been raised on remote island where she had developed the strange power to control birds; this, she used to gain imaginative forms of revenge on anyone who upset her, which seemed to be pretty much everyone who ever came within half a mile of her. A deeply ungrateful individual, Leonie bitterly resented having been removed from her island by Kelly's parents, who insisted on giving her a warm, comfortable home, good food and an education, the bastards! Her only wish was to return to the windswept isolation of her old home as soon as her gammy leg had healed up, and in the meantime it fell to Kelly to keep her out of trouble as far as was humanly possible. Personally, I wouldn't have bothered...