Prologue
I tapped my nails against the obsidian table, how should I begin, I felt my lips tug to one side – into a smile. The others at the table twitched, ever so slightly but twitched nonetheless.
"You all know why we are here, it's begun, you know what to do now let's go."
Midday
Two seemingly ordinary birds; a pigeon whose feathers are falling off, and a crow with glassy eyes, watch the crowded street below. The pigeon fidgets this way and that; the crow is still, its eyes scan the people walking below.
Nightfall
The pigeon bites at its back and the crow watches it with lost amusement, they'd been sitting around for almost three days watching, a few more days and they would move on to the next town but for the moment they were stuck where they were. .
"Shane, stop that or..." it didn't finish, at first it would seem that it didn't need to, that the tone of its voice was enough to make the pigeon stop what it was doing, but that wasn't the case at all. The crow had spotted something, a person exiting a restaurant, then lean against the wall near the door waiting, or so it seemed.
A van came into view and she walked toward it with sure steps. I guess the crow would call her pretty, pretty ordinary. Well at least in appearance, because in the crow's eyes she shined, no – shimmered with a faint an electric blue hue. The pigeon finally catching on cooed, the girl looked up, smiled and boarded the van and went away.
"Ko, don't you think we should have followed her," said the pigeon who was chewing on something. The crow bit at the air between them, angry - that Shane was able to come up with the idea, even madder that it was now far too late to follow.
An idea occurred to the crow, it flew down into the parking lot, its appearance changed before it landed on the asphalt. Walking towards the door of a restaurant was a girl, raven black hair, and beautiful dark eyes. She tapped on the door to the restaurant since it was locked. Behind it another girl with dark hair and eyes told her they were closed. "I was just looking for a girl, about my height, brown hair," it scrambled to think of something else.
"You mean Gabi, sorry she just left, but if you come back tomorrow after two you'll find her," said the girl with the really short hair, Felicia – her shirt said.
"Great, thanks," said the raven, and walked away, sure enough, as soon as the coast was clear she turned back into a crow. The pigeon saw the way the crow was now happy and relaxed, "Shane find the others and bring them here, tell them we found the next one."
Shane the pigeon flew away, muttering things like – "You have the ability to summon them but no, you have to send poor little me to fetch them," all the way.
Another City and Town
A tabby, a moth, and something that resembled a rat watched from the roof of a building. Bored and tired from the day they ate the remains of something unrecognizable. When Shane appeared, completely tired and wheezing they practically licked their lips. Shane saw this and muttered, "Ko and I found one, she sent me to fetch the rest of you," at the mention of Ko they quickly scanned the nearby zone, once they saw it was clear they relaxed.
Glad he was off the menu for the moment, Shane led the now vulture, eagle, and hummingbird (?) towards Ko and the next girl. Shane hated hanging around Ko because she was mean and sadistic but he preferred it to being near these other bird brains, they were just downright stupid and liked wicked games that made the loser dinner, and well he was already on the menu and didn't want to be the next course they would enjoy. Therefore Ko was the safer of the two, especially when happy, not so much when mad or worse – bored, then she was completely unpredictable, and prone on turning on whatever was near enough. So long as whoever was near enough wasn't him.
She adored and respected only him.