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A/N: Alright, I have one more of these done, and another in
progress, then my stock of backed up chapters/oneshots is gone…Enjoy…
They were falling.
Every single one of them was falling, struck by arrows. She watched them from a low window of the palace, her heart screaming as she did.
Even without thinking, she fled the window; rushing through the halls to where she could escape from the place she had worked so hard to help gain. She ran through the cobblestones streets to where she had seen them.
Glossy black feathers lay scattered on the street, some whole, others in tatters. Crow bodies littered the ground – some moved, arrow shafts in their wings, while others didn't, their wounds beyond any healer's ability.
Her heart caught when she saw a wavy white scar on an unmoving body. She knelt by the feathery cadaver; her fingers caressed the soft feathers as she picked him up.
"Nawat…" Aly's voice was but a whisper. Tears filled her eyes. Now, she, too, felt like she was falling.
Nawat was gone.
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Posted 2/7/2008