Role

Chapter 2

With his demanding writing practice finished at the cathedral, Zakuun
made his way through the dark and dismal streets to his house and
immediately he knew something was wrong. Where was his mother? Zakuun's
mother was always on the steps when he came home... and not only that,
but he could feel something deep inside himself that screamed something
was utterly wrong. Darting through the frail wooden door, Zakuun was
approached by the most horrific life-shattering sight - there was his
mother with a dull look on her face, lifelessly dangling from a simple
noose. "A simple knot", Zakuun thought to himself, "so simple..." He was
trying as hard as he could to hold back the tidal waves of emotion with
any distraction but his attempts were failing. He fell to his knees as
the sobs came pouring out, unsure what even to think or say. What would
he do? Who did this? Where would he go? Why his mother? Why...

Blindly turning towards the door to run away from this horrendous scene,
Zakuun never had a chance to react to the hand that latched over his
beak. Before even panic could settle in, his hands were tied
lightning-fast and he was half-dragged, half shoved into a shadowed
corner of an adjacent room. As he began to fight against his captor, an
old voice whispered "Shhhh, any noise and we die." Normally in this type
of situation, most would respond to the more deadly undertone (that
you're going to die) and not the more important one that Zakuun caught -
that he said "we". Deciding to trust his logic and a gut feeling that it
was truthful, Zakuun and his hopefully friendly captor watched as a
cloaked figure entered from the back entrance. Pushing the swinging
corpse out of his way, the figure leaned over the floor and held his hand
to the ground - but most importantly, revealing his face... an unknown
but an arial with a foreboding look. Seemingly angered by something he
gathered from touching the floor, he stormed out after a quick
surveillance of the home....and somehow the room seemed to brighten as he
left.