KORBIN
Leave my loneliness unbroken!
- quit the bust above my door!
- quit the bust above my door!
The bat yielded space and evaded the dark talons with good margin. Good. The heavy beak snapped reflexively after disappearing membranes if only to prove the point, but snapped shut without catching hold of anything.
And then the bird fell. Dropped, tumbling like a stone from the high altitude in a not-so-controlled dive. The kind of hair-raising aerial acrobatics only corvids were foolish enough to engage in. He - it, gods damn it - spun once, twice and then flung out the wings to break the speed, and veered off sharply at an angle towards the west.
It was all a diversion. Only a different attempt at getting away. To disappear. It was so easy; all one had to do was let go of any concerns not tied to oneself. Let others take care of themselves, and keep enough distance so that ones own presence did not bother them. The biggest mistake this bird had made in that regard was to remain in Halo.
A mistake that would surely be remedied, once this pursuer had been shaken off. There should be a good amount of distance between them now. Please. No more of this.
"Please." The raven did not mean to transfer that thought. Was not aware that it slipped beyond the mental shields. Perhaps that was why the single word carried such bleeding emotion, bone weary and fearful. Like a wound scabbed over that had suddenly been torn open again.
And then the bird fell. Dropped, tumbling like a stone from the high altitude in a not-so-controlled dive. The kind of hair-raising aerial acrobatics only corvids were foolish enough to engage in. He - it, gods damn it - spun once, twice and then flung out the wings to break the speed, and veered off sharply at an angle towards the west.
It was all a diversion. Only a different attempt at getting away. To disappear. It was so easy; all one had to do was let go of any concerns not tied to oneself. Let others take care of themselves, and keep enough distance so that ones own presence did not bother them. The biggest mistake this bird had made in that regard was to remain in Halo.
A mistake that would surely be remedied, once this pursuer had been shaken off. There should be a good amount of distance between them now. Please. No more of this.
"Please." The raven did not mean to transfer that thought. Was not aware that it slipped beyond the mental shields. Perhaps that was why the single word carried such bleeding emotion, bone weary and fearful. Like a wound scabbed over that had suddenly been torn open again.
Quoth the Raven,
"Nevermore."
"Nevermore."
