David (Roland’s hawk)

David was an old hawk now. The boy hoped that he himself was a young one. “Hai,” he said softly and extended his arm to the tethered perch.

Roland explicitly thinks of his hawk David and recalls the bird’s willingness to tear out an eye. This distinctive owner/animal/action matches the hawk in Gunslinger and Drawing; David Surrey remains separate.

… a creature which might weigh as much as seventy pounds and which was as single-mindedly carnivorous as David, the hawk he had had as a boy—but without David’s dim vestige of loyalty.

Roland recalls the named hawk David. This is the same bird from his Gunslinger training, distinct from the human Davids.

Somewhere in the distance a crow hailed its harsh cry into the stillness, and Roland thought for a moment of his hawk, David.

Roland explicitly thinks of his hawk David and recalls the bird’s willingness to tear out an eye. This distinctive owner/animal/action matches the hawk in Gunslinger and Drawing; David Surrey remains separate.