Answer:
I begin your sentences.
I go into the water black and come out red. What am I?
I am a pretty one, fluttering in the pale blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
It's in your hand though you can not feel it. Only you and time can reveal it.
What do you get when you cross a pig with a karate expert?
Dark, feathery, and popular in Baltimore and fantasy books.