Disclaimer:
Raven and the Teen Titans are properties of DC Comics. Cassandra Web, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Spider-Ham, et. al. are properties of Marvel Comics. Any reference to an actual person or location is strictly coincidental.
Prologue
Darkness surrounded her. An unfamiliar place. Noiseless, lightless, so very similar to the other places she let her astral self wander. So utterly foreign.
From the darkness, a voice. "What have we here?" the voice asked. In her mind, the voice was vaguely feminine, but ageless. The words spoken with an accent she did not recognize. "You do not belong in this place; you are not part of the web."
"Who are you?" she asked, straining to see the source of the voice in the darkness. "I was meditating and did not intend to come here... Wherever here is."
"I am known by many names, but you may call me Cassandra," the voice said from the nothingness, seemingly moving. A faint sniff in the blackness, "But what do I call you, hrm? Are you the Trickster, or the Harbinger?"
Defiant as the nothing swirled around her, she replied, "I am Raven."
Laughter in the black, echoing in the vast emptiness. "Indeed you are. A caution for you, Raven. Do not allow the spider to be plucked from her web, lest the weaving become undone."
"Now," the voice commanded, "awaken!"
Raven startled, eyes wide open, body still in lotus position. "That's… That shouldn't be possible," she muttered, stunned that she had been forced from her trance. Brushing violet hair from her eyes, she stood and padded to her bookshelf to seek answers.