"After he took away my job, my money, and my identity, what was left over? Just a sad, lonely creature, that's all. I don't care about anyone, so nobody's going to care about me. And my son? I've never paid attention to him. I just trot him around like some kind of accessory. If I just want him to be a decoration, well, now that's all he is."

A former businessman gets turned into a owl/bat creature, and his son is turned into a flower, by a vindictive wizard who is mad at the company the businessman used to work for.