To Ben, his windows weren't usually a thing of note. There was one in his bedroom, over his bed, that he usually kept blinded as to not wake him up at ungodly hours. Then there was the bigger one, in the backside of his living room, facing out into an astounding eight feet of space between his window and a dingy brick wall.

This eight feet of space was currently being taken up by what sounded like dozens upon dozens of giant killer ravens, each trying to murder each other in their haste to climb through the window. From the one Ben could see in his window, wings flapping gusts as it tried to cram itself through the too-small window, it was nearly as tall as he was.

Amy was across the room before Ben could blink, somehow up from the sleepy sofa to letting out a war cry at the window, not-silver knife flashing. It hadn't been with her earlier, nowhere to be seen in her sweats and tight tank, but Amy wielded it like it was an extension of her arm, face set in amber, the amber light casting a strange glow on her face as the first raven got a knife to the eye.

Ben, not one to be outdone, sprinted across his no longer uninteresting living room towards the shattered glass and gigantic homicidal (he assumed, by its attempts to eat Amy's arm) raven. It didn't seem all that bothered by the conical blade sticking in its eye.

Its feathers were the colour and sheen of freshly spilled ink, its eyes globes of glossy black rage, beak a fuller black like the soil from Pompeii. Glittering black eyes were far too intelligent, and Ben could've sworn it was enjoying this.

It hopped into the room, leaving tatters of bricks and shrapnels of glass on the floor. Glass dusted its wings, the lengths of which it shook out as it threw its head back and summoned its brethren. They started crowding through the window, and Ben's heart sank straight through his stomach to the floor.

Ben went for its skull with his silver knife, managing to glance it off its domed skull before it screamed a battle cry and cracked Ben across the temple with its sail-sized wing. Ben flew sideways into the wall, vision fuzzing to black at the edges. He landed hard on his wrist, felt the knife clatter away as he continued to roll.

More Ravens climbed in the window, four, five of them filling Ben's tiny apartment. More shrieked outside his apartment, croaking and all Ben could think of was that this must be what Hell sounds like, the screams of the tortured dead.

Through the throbbing and wetness at the back of his head, he heard shouting and what sounded like Amy, sweet Amy the unshakeable hunter, cussing like a sailor. A raven shrieking.

Then he felt a rush of air pressing down on him like a giant mattress, and hard talons wrapped around his ribs, digging in like knives. Still woozy, he tried to knock them away, scrabbling with his fingernails as his arms shook with adrenaline and pain.

Ben scraped his eyes wide open, fighting through the nausea and pain that made it feel almost dreamlike, as the talons clenched tighter until his ribs creaked under the strain, and he felt his head leave the floor.

It wasn't as dreamlike as he was thrown into the wall, saw it hurtling towards his face, heard Amy scream one last expletive, and then it was total blackness.

Short. Sorry. And this is the first chapter since the clues without an and in the title! I felt that 'Gigantic Homicidal Ravens' didn't exactly need an and. That's basically the chapter. Gigantic ravens that are very homicidal.

Anyway! *announcer voice* Thanks for watching, and we hope to see you soon! Now, onto the news...

At some point in the future (not anytime soon), instead of a usual update, there'll be a oneshot called Amy's Demons. It's from Amy's point of view, and it'll explain a whole lot about her and where she's coming from and all that jazz. It's about double the length of my usual chapters, too. You certainly won't have to read it, but it would probably be a good idea to. It happens at the exact same time as the update I'll be posting the week after that. Now, this is all planning. Subject to change. I just feel like its fair to warn you guys waaaaay ahead of time. I'm not all about surprises, unless they're plot related.

Have an awesome week! ThatAloneOne out!