Contest #2 Entry - My Spirt Familiar: The Raven

I thought I'd duck out this week to focus on the concluding the latest arc of the Bloody Raven. But @battleaxe has been watching me like a hawk for a juicy article to get her talons on. Then @silversaver888 and the ❤️ Nurturing mother hen as is, needed me to take over a little project and I agreed to take it over as to allow her to nest easy. 🛌 Teresa Part 11, is put on the backburner again.

🎃 I hope I didn't cringe you with the overzealous bird language @melinda010100 🐦

I got buckets and lists but I don't have a bucket-list, True Selfie? it's a long story but for short I will duck out for the safety of my home and the health and well being of the person who may try to do harm to me and try to accost my precious possessions. So my Contest #2 Choice is: If you could be an animal, which animal would you be, and why?

If you'd like to enter this Contest the rules are here 👈

As my Spirit Familiar: The Raven

Pyreneens, Spain 1492

After securing the horses and wagons Master Fregelio hung his crossbow in plain sight before dismissing the women to their days chores. The older women whisper of a girl he killed for trying to leave the caravan. With a grin he retrieved his small wooden chest from its hiding places then withdrew to his tent as he once again counted his money. The tent walls could not contain his words, “We should return to Spain again Zevan, here’s good gold from rich Iberian men with strong appetite for our little girl no?”

His partner rubbed his hands, "I agree Fregelio there may be only a good year left in her before she'll be no longer passable as a virgin."

"The more she fights and struggle the better eh Zevan, a drink for our little gold mine."

In this cool morning in the western side of the Pyreneen mountains she was tasked to gather food for the evening meal. Most of the women prepared for day's camp routine duties and he reminded her of the consequences of trying to run away as he pointed to the crossbow, "Not only your sisters bear the brunt of my anger but you will suffer much worse off alone and helpless. Now don’t get lost!"

Taska trudged through the thickets and gnarled underbrush in the search for the delicate Spanish mushrooms Master Fregelio would enjoy with his evening meal. Her simple dress was not ideal in gathering anything in the thorny unforgiving brush. She was helpless and hated the feeling. Papa always taught that she and her brother were much stronger than we thought, then took the time to teach them how to handle a knife, a club, a short sword. Taska never took the fighting lessons to heart but enjoyed her Father's daily assurance. She always believed her father would always protect her and so would her future husband.

She fell to her knees and wept, "I beseech thine some wandering soul free me from this life!"

It was a ridiculous desperate attempt to kill the master of the brothel. She did manage to seize his dagger with both neither the strength nor the speed to use it. The bruises about her wrists and buttocks have healed from his whip was consequence of her rebellion. He snarled, "I would have done worse but I would not profit with damaged goods eh?"

Even if she had succeeded there was still his impetuous younger partners Zevan or Treba, and their unprotected caravan would be certainly fall prey to any band of Highwaymen.

She fell upon her face and lamented, “We are helpless women.”

A raspy voice beckons, "Stop your drama little girl!”

The disembodied voice startled Taska, "Who eavesdrops upon me?" she scans around looking for the person but there was no soul but a stout Raven staring at her atop from a fallen tree.
"Tis only the bird of death," leaning forward with her palms upon the damp sod. "Well foul kite of death; do thy bring a gift to close my eyes in endless sleep?"

The Raven hopped off the log and bobbed to within her arm's reach.

"Perhaps should you desire such, but I bring only a proposition for a friend." The Raven replied.

Taska recoiled and fell upon her backside, "What black magic is this, You thy spake!"

"I am a spirit of Ambrogio dwelling in this form. I know you desire power over your master and the fire of vengeance burns in your soul. Come and follow me into the forest and seize it and live free forever and to be the harbinger of wrath to your enemies."

I am born in the year of our Lord 1482, I Taska Menine, daughter of Lord Grigory and Lady Anna Menine, and sister to Grigory II of the Menine fiefdom of Khazria.

I was but ten years of age when my Father is betrayed just because the people loved him more than our Khazarian king. The seductive whispers and scheming voices of evil men persuaded the King to falsely charge my father Grigory of treason my family killed and I was sold into slavery.

Misty Castle By Marc Marchal Under CCO Unsplash

I vowed vengeance for my family but I was powerless and in my weakness I was led to my spirit creature, the Raven that claimed to be empowered by the First Night Walkers of Ambrogio thus spake Machel the Despised. There he gave me my autonomy and his power and used it to throw off the oppressive yoke of my cruel taskmaster and fulfill my lust for vengeance but that power also came with the price as my soul is cast in lot with the eternal undead.

I am accompanied by my cursed blade and on at times The Raven. For 500 years my enemies and their descendants fear me as the Night Walker, today they call me …Vampire.

The Raven, mysterious ,intelligent, almost magical and they like shiny things.

References

All are my own pictures shot with a Samsung SM-A530W unless otherwise indicated.

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R. Clip art from 123RF

W. Wiki Commons

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One of my prized possessions

0.999 Fine Silver “Unkindness of Ravens” by Silverbackstacker

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