The cold wind snapped at Natalie's face as she walked to her friend's house at the end of the street. Her parents were out on a buisness trip, so she had the whole house to herself for a whole week. It got lonely, and
possibly even scary, being in the cold and creaky house at night. It felt asif she was not the only one in her home. She had heard rumors from other kids in the neighborhood. There once was a fire in the house that was once atop the same soil that
/her housenow stands on. A little girl was sitting at her window, staring at the waning bloodred moon that cool, autumn night, when a black raven landed on her windowsill and cawed. Five minutes later, the house caught fire, and the little girl was
/the only survivor. She was moved from foster house to foster house in that same neighborhood, wherever she went, disaster followed, and so did the raven. One night, to avoid her stepfather's drunken anger, she walked down the street she used to live
on.
She stopped in front of the huge mound of ashes that used to be her house, and imagined her parent's bones lying among the carnage. Suddenly, the mound of ashes erupted and formed a flock of hundreds of ravens, who flew down and surrounded the little
/girl, engulfing her in a hurricane of beating wings. When they flew thier seperate ways, her eyes were cobalt black. She cast no shadow. She started flickering like alight, and dissapeared. She was never seen again. They say that she still haunts
/that very street , at night, when the blood moon is waning. She put it off as silly fables, but it still stuck in the back of her mind. The faint crimson light emitting from what was left of the shrinking moon shown dimly on the small town of Ravenna,
/giving the lifeless trees a haunted look, casting thier looming shadows over her. Natalie heard a caw from the lamppost above her. She looked up into a pair of beady black eyes that seemed to peerinto her soul. She shuttered. Before Natalie could
/react, a massive flockof ravens flew over the crimson moon, obscuring the miniscule light and engulfing her in darkness. Natalie stood in fear as a little girl stood in front of her, flickering like a light in the dakness. Her eyes were pitch black.
/There was enough light to see that shecast no shadow. Terror coursed through Natalie'sbody as she watched her shadow get sucked into the ghost. Natalie blacked out.
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