What is a Khatru you might ask?
Well, let's go back in time, eleven years ago. The year was 2002, and when asked, Alysoun said:
"A "khatru" (khatruavis Stellaris) is a flightless Siberian bird that is only visible on nights when the moon is waxing and the teperature is below -32 degrees fahrenheit. Those who have glipmsed in on rare occassions claim that it resembles a cross between a crane, an emu and a hummingbird. The only documented sighting of the rare avain came from Georg Stellar's reseraches in that area in the late 19th century. It has never been seen since that time as remains as much of an enigma as Stellar's white raven.
Stalin tried docment their existance and then tried to have them all sent to the camps during the 30s and 40s, therefore they are even more rare than they had been.
(NB: Georg Stellar was a real german biologist who did study the zoology of the Siberian region and his white raven which he claimed to see only once may or may not have been a real creature. And the sight of dancing cranes in Siberia and Mongolia is a very magical sight, so I have read)"
After all what's the present but the past, anyway, only later?