Omen Valley

Bath house in fire

 

Guguyni flies from the river over the Plains and sees with her keen raven eyes the far off city with its white plastered walls.  She sees no food at the Plains so she flies towards the promising cities, where walls are, are people, and where people are is food. She wings over the high walls, which is easy for a god winger as she is, and sees masses of people below. She does not like masses, because they trample birds, or even eggs, the same as the dumb bosk herds which move on without thinking at all, just move on, dumb like snowy avalanche, destroying all in its path. No, no raven makes its nest at the ground on the plains, the ones who did were a long dead evolutionary side branch.

The raven flies to the North and sees a building with water, she is thirsty and lands near the artificial pool. She hops around , keen looking for humans, but she sees none. A deserted ruin she decides, she hops further after drinking the water an decides to make a nest here, so she can lay her eggs in spring when the snow is melted.

She finds a nice spot under an textile balcony which gives shade against the sun. She flies up again into the city, searching for branches and smaller twigs. She notices this will not be easy in the city. The big Tur tree has some under it, but that’s almost the only bigger tree in this city. She brings back the twigs to the deserted flat roofed house and starts making her nest. The next flights deliver pieces of textile, cotton, flaxen, which suits well to make the nest more comfy.

Guguyni has almost finished her habitat, then starts for a last flight in the city, she sees suddenly something glistering, she hops towards it and sees a silver ring at a table in a house. She is afraid but the addiction to glistering things is too strong to resists, and she enters the house. Inside she picks up the ring and sees some black twigs in a fire place. She carefully comes nearer and sees its not burning, she takes 3 extra twigs for her nest in her beak and flies back to the nest in the big house.

The raven drops the twigs in the nest, not noticing one is still glowing,. She hides the ring in the nest when suddenly she sees the cotton in the nest is aflame, in panic she flies away. As an animal she is afraid of fire ad keeps a safe distance. From there she sees how her nest flames up high enlightening the textile tents under which her nest was. From the tent, the fire spreads rapidly through the building,

Hakimba Oakleaf suddenly notices the smell of smoke so he turns round and is scared by the shine of a big fire. For the first moment he tries to take some water from the pool to extinguish the fire but there is no bigger bucket so he fails

Hakimba Oakleaf runs back to the balustrade and shouts "FIRE.. the bath is burning"

 Hakimba Oakleaf then fast runs out of the fire zone

Hakimba Oakleaf shouts: Help, Water the bath is on fire

 Hakimba Oakleaf shouts: Help, Water the bath is on fire

Hakimba Oakleaf: oh no the flames are destroying the whole building

Hakimba Oakleaf fetches some buckets with water and returns to the building but because of the heat he can’t get close enough to pour it into the fire so at last he resigns and stay helpless gazing at the disaster