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So...I decided to write some stuff. The reason why I chose the title is...whatever. Just read. And please comment afterwards.



PROLOGUE
"Tell us again!"
"Yes, tell us. Just what happened?"
"How big was it?"
Besha tried to push away, but they were crowding around him as he ran towards the forest. When he had seen it he had headed straight for the village, and his heart still pounded hard as he went, the picture of the creature frozen behind his eyes. A thin blur in the air almost a trick of the light it had seemed, he would have given anything for that to be true but he knew it wasn’t, he knew it wasn’t, he knew it couldn’t be. The hunger had been too great for a trick of the mind, raw and burning hunger that was still tearing at his heart-as if the creature had stolen into his body. It was a powerful spirit perhaps? But no, the fear had been too real.

The other children were following him like a swarm now, and so were many of the adults. Some he thought he knew, some he didn’t but he was leading them all into the forest and he dreaded it. Hadn’t he felt the thing was there, hadn’t he seen it there in the forest? A trick of the light…was it? Had he just imagined it, the terrible wild yearning, hadn’t he just imagined the fear? He had reached the edge of the trees now and the crowd began to slow down, peering into the shadows as if they could see it-how can you see a shadow among shadows? But they’d know soon. He’d warned them, hadn’t he? And they hadn’t listened of course. It was too late now.

A sudden cloud of black burst out of the sea of green and materialized into a pack of crows. Shadow crows and carrion birds all, despicable and dishonorable thieves they were, thieves with no respect for the dead. It wasn’t right they didn’t come during the day, shadow crows didn’t do that. It wasn’t right. The others had seen too, but they didn’t know, they were glad for the birds to leave. But he knew oh he knew, something wasn’t right and so did the crows know too. No time, no time to argue and to reason and to plead, only time to run. He turned fast on his feet and promptly did so. They’d know soon to respect the forest. They’d know soon.