The Raven

“How can that be? 2000 years???”

“That’s what it says on the internet, Elara.”

She turned to look at him, her sea green eyes wild. “How do you know this internet is accurate?”

“Well, let’s look at another one.” Lubic went back to the search engine and opened the next website. That one just confirmed what the first one said. He looked at about five others and they all confirmed the information. “It looks like they’re all in agreement. We could go and see what the library has to say about this though, if you’d like.”

“Yes, please, let’s go there. This has to be a mistake!”

He checked his watch. “Well, if we hurry, we should be able to make it before the library closes.”

Lubic went to make their excuses to his grandmother. Then they headed outside.

“Your house is so strange looking. Well, all the buildings are rather strange looking. But at least your house is oddly pretty.”

“Thank you, I think.”

Elara’s gaze turned to the sky. “I wonder when it got so cloudy? It was sunny earlier.”

“Yeah, I don’t know,” Lubic said, looking up as well. “Those clouds sure moved in fast.” They were just about at his Protégé, when out of nowhere a gigantic Raven swooped out of the clouds, grabbed Elara in its talons, then quickly flew back into the clouds. Lubic stared dumbfounded as the clouds quickly dissipated, leaving no trace of bird or girl. The bird had disappeared before Elara had had a chance to scream.

It was then he noticed that no one else seemed to be around. “How did no one else see that???”