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Characters: Murkrow, as requested.
Summary: There are some Pokedex entries that make you wonder.
Murkrow
Murkrow: The Darkness Pokemon. It is believed that seeing this pokemon at night will bring about ominous occurrences.
Life is a graveyard haunt.
The murkrow's eyes are shut wide open, and it stands upon the gravestone each day until witching hour arrives. When the night reaches that vital time the tolling of bells fills the air, and it sees the figure of its trainer in the mist, obscured and haloed in light but unmistakably him.
And it sings its song just for him; just for him, because it is sorry that they were torn apart like that, and is sorry that they can only see each other through the veil now.
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The trainer stands on the other side, his living murkrow perched on his shoulder as he gazes at the corpse of his pokemon; at its talons, stiff and frozen but still digging into the tombstone, and at its eyes, which stare unblinkingly. He gazes at its still chest and frozen-over feathers, and at its beak, which is still opened in mid-song.
And he thinks, despite the fact that he is the one alive, that life is a graveyard haunt.