KORBIN
Leave my loneliness unbroken!
- quit the bust above my door!
- quit the bust above my door!
He remained where he was while waiting for the badger to catch up. Possibly he was a bit startled by the ferocity with which it began to burrow into the den once it appeared. Practically leaping headfirst down the hole, clawing, digging, snarling. But the raven immediately saw the advantage to this, and readied itself, wings half lifting, body tensing in anticipation.
There came a flash of movement as the hare shot out from the destroyed burrow, running frantically across the snow. In a flurry of black feathers the raven was after it, wings beating hard to keep up. The cruel beak pecked at the animal, pecked again, and again, relentlessly digging it into the panicked hare, drawing blood.
The creature made a desperate turned to try and escape, but stumbled and fell. Immediately Korbin landed on it and kept up his gruesome hacking until the hare lay dead, blood scattered across the snow in stark crimson.
Shimmering chest heaving from the exertion and the thrill of the kill, the raven looked up and hissed soundlessly at the badger. In that instant, the boy was quite gone, lost within the raging wild instincts. Just a clever bird ready to fend off its meal from any opportunists.
There came a flash of movement as the hare shot out from the destroyed burrow, running frantically across the snow. In a flurry of black feathers the raven was after it, wings beating hard to keep up. The cruel beak pecked at the animal, pecked again, and again, relentlessly digging it into the panicked hare, drawing blood.
The creature made a desperate turned to try and escape, but stumbled and fell. Immediately Korbin landed on it and kept up his gruesome hacking until the hare lay dead, blood scattered across the snow in stark crimson.
Shimmering chest heaving from the exertion and the thrill of the kill, the raven looked up and hissed soundlessly at the badger. In that instant, the boy was quite gone, lost within the raging wild instincts. Just a clever bird ready to fend off its meal from any opportunists.
Quoth the Raven,
"Nevermore."
"Nevermore."
