"You and I are so bright, and she is so drab" Those where the words i heard my mother say when I hatched. Dull. Drab. Things she made me out to be from the moment I laid eyes on the world.

Well, my father was there. He took me into his claws and at the time he looked so big, so imposing. But, I rested my face in his fur and it was so warm and welcoming. I might not have looked like him, but I loved him. And he loved me.

"Well, if anything the Windsinger will want this little one..." "The Windsinger would love to have all of us." He mused as he walked my siblings and I to the edge of something that looked like a cliff. We were to wait for other lairs to look us over, there to decide if we should go or not.

Well a huge tundra came up to me just a few minutes after being on the cliff. He was very scary-looking, but I saw the comforting smile on his face and his bright blue eyes, and knew he must be a very kind leader. I was the first to go, and the tundra asked if I was available. My father nodded and my mothers eyes were filled with tears of happiness. But before I left, my father came up to me, speaking in some language I did no know. I guessed that I had already left my old lair, and was now a warrior of this new lair. But, in my heart, I knew what he was trying to say. "Oh my child, Oh my sweet little Raven... you're going to shine like a star. "