46 - A Shroud Up High

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A hundred ravens and one lift Rasthrum off the ground. They soar high with him dangling between them like a ragdoll.

Higher and higher they ascend the sky, black as a shroud yet blue as cobalt. The three moons of Lakoswanion are dim and numb.

Numb, as I am. Numb, as Marra and Aar and Es are. Numb.

Numb with sadness? I don’t know. Sadness doesn’t quite cover it. Grief? No. No, I don’t a word which encapsulates our feel at this moment has yet been invented.

Rasthrum did this willingly, I remind myself. I will be lying if I say it helps.

Higher and higher they ascend the sky. The ravens and Rasthrum. 

Higher and higher they do ascend.

Higher and higher. Till they are not within sight.

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