Landed Wings

chapter 38: TOO LATE

RAVEN

Behind the warehouse, a door is opened, and Raven Drave is thrown out. She’s unconscious and hits the pavement with a dull thud. She lands in a puddle and doesn’t move. Blood mixes with the rain from one of her many wounds. The rain thunders around her, chilly and biting. Still she doesn’t stir. The rain washes some of the blood away, but more comes, thicker than before. Where she lays, the moon hits with dull brightness. She is meant to be found, but not until it is too late. And it seems that it is already too late. Raven finally moves, her face appearing out of the fold of her bloody clothes and feathers. She spits water out of her mouth and tries to lift one weak trembling wing. It flops back down into the water and stays there. A sound comes out of her trembling lips. It is a sound heard by no one. If someone could hear her, they would have heard the name of the one person who’d always been there for her.

“Obsidian.”

Her head falls back. Once again, she stops moving. Her eyes glaze over and appear unable to see the coldly amused moon above her.

The End