Talk:Between Dark and Dawn/@comment-53539-20190627121320

The Swan thing is likely based on the counting of the swans event here in the UK that happens once a year.

Since King Henvy 8th time, Swans have mostly belonged to the crown to the point killing one lands you in the crown court. Each year the swans are rounded up on the River Themes and ringed and then released, while their general numbers are counted.

As one guy described it from the RSPCA, "I don't know much about what goes on, but it involves a lot of drinking. And by the end of the event, their mostly putting the rings on each other instead of the swans."