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Raven was Death. She dwelt in death. She lived on death. Ages past, she had worn the blue-black, purple, feathers of the raven and dined on royalty at Tower hill. A tumble from grace had lodged her here in this fragile form. No more would her maw drip ruby red, no more would her caw fill the mourning, or her soaring flight slice the air like a Frenchman’s sword. A Raven, with clipped wings, was she. Centuries had passed since she, in her feathered form, had feasted on the King. **Bran the Blessed, giant, King of Wales, had been her down fall. Cursed was she, as she dined on his eyes, in the field of battle. Ah, what did a raven know of the curses of man. But, she knew now. Bran's head was placed, as a talisman, on the grounds of Tower Keep in Londontown. She, transformed, cursed, walks the night in this beautiful, weak, human vessel for as long as, Bran's name is remembered. Her satin-sandaled feet hold her earthbound. Just as superstition holds her clip-winged brethren in the Tower courtyard, Bran's Curse holds her here. No longer can she fly, but, she is free to roam. The churchyard calls her. Ashen skies no longer welcome her, but the gravestones, spade-shaped like the tails of carrion feeder, beckon. The evening corpse has arrived. Draped in mourning weeds of black, her death-like pall, luminescent in the moonlight, her lips a tell-tale crimson, she arms her self with a firebrand. The bluish steel glistens. Death with a gun, certainly, one could see the over kill? She laughs. Looking skyward, she calls. “Husband*, children…” she mimicks the caw of her unfettered kin. “Come to Ma Ma..dinner is served.” *Raven's mate for life...or death? ;) **Bran is the Welsh word for Raven/ King Bran the Blessed ***A NIGHTMARE
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