December 28, 2022, 09:42 AM
he'd looked everywhere. every open valley and thick forest, and near every river and around every scavenged bone. so, really, no one could blame him. nobody could say he'd given up too quick when he went from bending his neck to look at the skies, to keeping his eyes glued to the ground.
not that it mattered. soaring beneath thick clouds or scattered over snow, his sister's feathers couldn't be found.
and now yonder felt as bitter as the cold.
the raven perched on a barren, long-dead branch of a felled tree - an engelmann spruce, he identified without pride - on the very, very edge of blackfeather woods. crows and ravens unceasingly cawed and croaked in the canopy far above, weaving a new rumour into the insults they already flung at each other -
hunters! hunters have come! there might yet be a corpse!
-but yonder did not care. feathers poofed, head partially submerged into own plumage, he looked off into the nondescript distance.
trying very hard not to end up misty-eyed.
not that it mattered. soaring beneath thick clouds or scattered over snow, his sister's feathers couldn't be found.
and now yonder felt as bitter as the cold.
the raven perched on a barren, long-dead branch of a felled tree - an engelmann spruce, he identified without pride - on the very, very edge of blackfeather woods. crows and ravens unceasingly cawed and croaked in the canopy far above, weaving a new rumour into the insults they already flung at each other -
hunters! hunters have come! there might yet be a corpse!
-but yonder did not care. feathers poofed, head partially submerged into own plumage, he looked off into the nondescript distance.
trying very hard not to end up misty-eyed.
// raven services; messages & deceit -> ✦
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RE: akh - by Yonder - December 28, 2022, 09:42 AM