KORBIN
Leave my loneliness unbroken!
- quit the bust above my door!
- quit the bust above my door!
It was perhaps a good thing that he couldn't peck at the goose too, or this might have turned ugly. Loren's thoughts pierced the fog of panic and instinct with some difficulty. But though the young man heard him, knew he should calm down, stay still, the message did not pass successfully from brain to body.
The descended, and to Korbin it was a prolonged nightmare where he lived all his worst fears. He couldn't breathe, think, do anything to help himself. When Loren let go with one of his feet, the raven tore itself free -
- and fell. Plummeted, tumbling beak over claw with wings scrabbling wildly for lift. The ground came rushing up to meet him... and just as he thought he'd be flattened against the snow, he managed to right himself.
Spreading the wings wide, the raven leveled out and glided over the ground, only feet away from certain death. He broke the speed and all but collapsed into the snow, panting with open beak, wings still spread in shocked stillness as his little heart beat lightning fast against the breastbone.
The descended, and to Korbin it was a prolonged nightmare where he lived all his worst fears. He couldn't breathe, think, do anything to help himself. When Loren let go with one of his feet, the raven tore itself free -
- and fell. Plummeted, tumbling beak over claw with wings scrabbling wildly for lift. The ground came rushing up to meet him... and just as he thought he'd be flattened against the snow, he managed to right himself.
Spreading the wings wide, the raven leveled out and glided over the ground, only feet away from certain death. He broke the speed and all but collapsed into the snow, panting with open beak, wings still spread in shocked stillness as his little heart beat lightning fast against the breastbone.
Quoth the Raven,
"Nevermore."
"Nevermore."
