Meanings:
Brink – edge
Flap – move wings up and down
Expanse – stretch
Muster – gather
Desperate – full of disappointment
Devour – eat
Taunting – mocking
Scrapped – rubbed
Plaintively – sadly
Monstrous – very big
Shrieking – crying
Beckoning – calling
Exhausted – tired
Swoop – fly