Reimagining The Raven

 

One Sunday night, around the early morning, about 3:00 AM, a very fearful teenager of only 15 years old was sailing in a lake, inside a deep, big and scary forest that gave a lot of fear and curiosity. You may ask: WHAT WAS HE DOING THERE? Really, we cannot find that answer, but the only thing he wanted was a little peace and calm, and being there alone he found it little by little.

Suddenly, that teenager, called Octavio, felt a presence and started to shake like never before. He had big chills and became very pale, pale like a walking dead. He felt a strange presence, something difficult to understand, because he never lived it before. It was very mysterious, but even with fear, he didn’t care and started to look around.

Suddenly, he saw big black eyes, with gray and brown tones, shining with deep light. At first the eyes were far away, but little by little they came closer, and that gave him more fear. At the same time, he heard a warm and soft voice whispering: COME TO ME, repeatedly. Then, suddenly, the eyes disappeared.

Because it was very late at night, there was a lot of fog. Suddenly, at the back of the boat, there was a big noise. His heart started to beat very fast, and he entered in a big crisis of fear, so strong that he panicked completely.

so much so that I got curious and it came to my mind, but who could it be at this hour if the only one here is me, everyone else is in their deep sleep and I asked myself WHO COULD IT BE? I got up in the boat trembling with fear to verify who it could be, and out of nowhere I heard a thick, old, and treacherous voice that said to me, DON'T MOVE ANYMORE?

The most fearful thing was that even though the hours passed, one after another and it was supposed to dawn and get clearer, it wasn't like that, it was as if time had stopped and it was getting darker and darker and in the middle of the fog I managed to see something, but I couldn't see well what it was, if it was a person like me or something deformed, and I was like that for a few seconds until I finally saw clearly what it was. It reflected a kind of very large, muscular crow, a very strong and dark color, with immense wings and disturbing and magnificent eyes that were not reflected anywhere else.

I don't know why or how, it just came to me out of nowhere, from asking him, "WHO ARE YOU?" Are you real or just a hallucination of my mind from how overwhelmed I feel right now.

He answered in a deep tone, stealthily approaching him in the boat, little by little, and said, "I am anxious, and I will be forever," and let out brief, fearful laughs, "Hahahaha," forever.