CHAPTER 12
After talking with Maester Luwin, I look around the streets and alleys for road side stones with smooth surface, after I come back to my room I set the chicks on top of the table and put the ragged cloths I picked up from the kitchen around the nest.
I pick up a few stones and use fire magic on them after they start to feel really hot, I put them under the cloths around the nest so it will keep them warm until I found a better solution and dig up some worms. When I go out I found two big slab of stone, one is half the size of the other and put them aside then I go around the places with damp soil and dig up a bucket of worms. It took me around an hour to pick all of this.
When I come back to my room, I found it in utter chaos those two are crying with all their might. I took a half handful of worm and crush them in a mortar I bought. After that I use a small piece of wood I flattened with a width of 1cm(0.3 inch) which I use like spoon and feed the chicks, until they stop begging. When the room becomes silent again I take the slabs of stones I brought to the table. I use some earth magic on them and manage to change their shape a bit in to the shape of a wide bowl and put the nest inside so it wouldn't move or get destroyed while the chicks move inside. After that I started to heat the bigger slab to the scalding hot. Then put the other smaller bowl shaped slab to keep it warm. Because it is not direct heat it would be comfortable for the chicks. Now all I have to do heat, feed and clean the shit for a 1 or 2 month. It is going to be fun, right.
I know it is too much work for 2 stupid birds, their parents died right in front of me, they become orphans right in front of me. I just want to do it. I feel like I have to do it. They are all alone in this world without anyone to lean on when you are tiered or scared. I just feel like I have to. I don't know maybe I m being ridiculous.
It has been 4 week since I started looking after them. They are now fully feathered so I don't need to warm them that much but I still put some heat on to the slab. Oh, and I named them. one of them has a few white feathers starting right on top of its head and ending close to its beak in the shape of a "v" its feathers are deep and dark navy blue and it is a bit smaller than its sibling so I think of it as the little sister, it is a she, I cant tell for the life of me but the Maester said it was a female and the bigger one is a he. So big brother and little sister it is. He is called Erebus. The little sister is called Poe. Erebus looks a bit different in color it is black as the nights itself. They have one thing common Erebus has a few white feathers too. But his white feathers are at his wing joints where his wings are folded. Erebus little bit of an ahole. It is always trying to bite me or anything that comes close to it. Poe is more docile she wont attack if you don't poke her.
I decided to use them on my familiar bound training too. I m sure I will have enough mana to make connection in 1 or 2 months top and I think the ravens would be able to fly before or at that time too. It has been a real challenge to rear them. I had to run all around the place for a whole month because I had to feed them every hour until Sun down. I think because of all that endless running my speed become 1.4.
" I think I can take it 1 more month but if you don t learn how to fly by then I m most likely going to cook and eat you Erebus but I will keep Poe, she is a good girl. She doesn't bite daddy. Right good girl" I start petting Poe with my finger.
Snap… ahh !
"Bad girl!"
I was in the Godswood, It has been 2 week and the ravens started to learn flying but they can only fly for a few seconds and fall down on their feathery bums. It was nightmarish 2 week. I m almost spent from all the training and running around. If they don't learn how to fly soon I have to take a break from training and rest a bit. While I was meditating I felt my mana go up from 29.8 to 30 and opened my eyes, It is almost an hour I have to go back. I got up, started going back while I m walking I look around the woods and identify the herbs and weeds I see. I have been spending more and more time in the library so my body can rest a bit. In the library I found a compendium about the northern herbs from that I learned almost all of the herbs on earth has the same name here, of course there are many that doesn't exist there too. There are always new things to be learned.
It was a tiring day. The day was starting to end. The sun rays were starting to turn orange from the bright yellow and started to get caught by Winterfell's 30 meters (100 feet) tall walls and it was causing giant shadows to be created by the walls.
I got in to my room and I collapsed on my bed from exhaustion. Something felt so weird. There weren't any cry for food the second I got inside. I got up and look on top of my table. The nest was empty. I looked around the room, they are not here I go on to the window and see if the blinds are locked and they are. I hear a caw then I turn around, this cant be real.
"YOU LİTTLE MURDEROUS AHOLES!" this two pricks, I have no I idea how they got in but they opened the bird cage and eat Blue. This was the reason they were not asking for food because both of them were full.
