Seven Crows order to destroy the cross-border vampiric threat. Riley and Sam cannot count on back-up from their normal team, as high-level string pulling has pushed them off the case officially. The four discover there is more than just seemingly random vampire murders when more than one supernatural threat shows up and local hospitals begin filling with the sick and the dying. Crows are also prevalent as well. Many are mysteriously dying. Living crows seem to be warning the foursome of future threats based on an old poem. The poem goes like this: "One crow sorrow/Two crows mirth/Three crows a wedding/Four crows
A Feast for Crows writing process it was discovered that this was leading to an overreliance on flashbacks to fill in the gap. After twelve months or so of working on the book, Martin decided to abandon much of what had previously been written and start again, this time picking up immediately after the end of "A Storm of Swords". He announced this decision, along with the new title "A Feast for Crows", at Worldcon in Philadelphia on September 1, 2001. He also announced that "A Dance with Dragons" would now be the fifth book in the sequence. In May 2005 Martin announced that