The Black Willow Forest was a place most grim in appearance, where the leaves were few and of a darker tone, and the setting sun was the only glimpse of physical, tangible hope is this miasmic land.<br/><br/>Which is precisely why it was the perfect place to insert a graveyard, a graveyard for humanity and the sapient races of the land to place their dead loved ones so that their bones could be left undisturbed and their loved ones could be memorialised.<br/><br/>The dominant species within these lands were the predatory wolves and the scavenging ravens. They were united by a single leader -<a class="link link--external" href="https://orig00.deviantart.net/249e/f/2013/349/b/4/valravn_by_hi_agni-d6y315b.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">the Valravn</a>.<br/><br/>This beast, with the frontal body of a raven and the hind of a wolf, with a chimerical body arrangement akin to a gryphon, was a monster that ruled over its brethren. The result of a raven that had eaten the corpse of a fallen, valiant warrior in battle, it was more intelligent than most monsters, and was more benevolent as well, despite what word might say.<br/><br/>That was not much, persay, for we all know that most monsters were the very opposite of this trait.<br/><br/>The Valravn watches over a petite girl who was eating fresh from a gazelle, unfortunate to be hunted by her. Its blood splattered over her nude figure as her fangs sank into it. The frontal fringes of her dirty blonde hair were starting to turn red as well. The girl looks at the Valravn in the eyes and howls.<br/><br/>In response, the monster sank its beak into the prey and began to pick at its flesh, eating alongside the wild girl as a large, beating night-hued wing covered the girl like a blanket.<br/><br/>Who knows how many of such moments they were going to have together again?<br/><br/>~~~<br/><br/>"Bravo! Bravo!"<br/><br/>Beside Elisa, the sound of clapping was heard as the puppet and puppeteer did the performances.<a class="link link--external" href="https://img00.deviantart.net/3334/i/2018/158/d/1/white_sorcerer_by_nataeliza-d9jzmb7.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">This man</a>, the one who stood beside her, was described to be blonde in hair, emerald in eyes and fair in skin. He wore a hood, uncloaked to reveal his entire face. He wholeheartedly enjoyed the marvel, based on his smile, and he even smiled throughout the puppet exposing the fat man's trysts and crimes, as if he saw them as part of the greater act.<br/><br/>"It has been a long time since I have been to such a show," the man converses with Elisa, "I never remembered them being this real, but it's good to see something I thought was gone so long ago. I assume that you are here to relive some old times as well, young miss?"<br/><br/>The man then saw the sight - a knight walking up to the puppeteer. He crossed his arms and looked at the sight, awaiting its development.