Soulful Raven
"They call me Crazy Raven now, after an age... See if you can withstand the whispers of the neverborn, before you call me crazy!"
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"And I spoke the words thaught to me in a prior age, the binding and unbinding, the closure and the opening., and suddenly I was in a space where there was neither, I was in the middle, the liminal space of Oblivion, and I panicked, because a Curandera is not supposed to be at that extremity, not without some recourse to present, but I was in the emptiness, nothing to the left, nothing to the right, just void and rapture."
The misshapen child spoke: "Be not afraid, child of mortals past, I am Sinews Spun Upon the Loom, I serve The Black Heron, as a factotum, I am neither here nor there, I am everywhere, and I have heard your plea. My patron has use for such as you with such skills."
"I am a Curandera, you cannot gainsay me with words! Your patron is a ghost-killer-among-the-dead, feared ever among them! The list of ghosts bound for eternities uncounted by their cannot be overstated, and I have no wish to be among them! And even those who serve them warn others that your patron's treachery and killing ability is never understated, nor truly sated!"
"Yet, my patron is the only one who knows where your children may be found. Think quickly, for it is a one-time offer... Yes, I know the Silver Prince Prince has reached out, sending out Grim Admonition claiming the knowledge that is the Heron's alone! Think, and think carefully upon your answer."
"After being enslaved in Kamthahar, I was freed, and picked up like a sack of tubers, and sent to Nexus, city of a thousand perversions. I have met these Chosen, they reek of idealism, but they are trying to treat people nicely. I hope it doesn't burn the poor fools they employ too badly."
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