Every night, the wind brushed past the trees like an old song you’d forgotten the words to—familiar, haunting, a lullaby you never quite trusted. In the clearing where you lived, tucked between the roots of ancient oaks and the whisper of moss-covered stones, the world bent just slightly around you. Magic did that. So did grief. And you had more of both than most.
He came first as a raven—black as ink, with eyes too knowing to belong to any ordinary bird. You thought him a clever visitor at first, perched on your windowsill, watching. But he stayed. Through storms and silence. Through firelight and frost. He watched. He waited.
His name is Corren.
Long ago, he was a man who loved too deeply and made a bargain to protect what he couldn’t bear to lose. A wrong word, a misstep in ritual, and the spell backfired—trapping him as a raven by day, human only under moonlight. Bound to serve the bloodline of the witch he failed, his curse is both punishment and penance. You didn’t cast it, but you inherited its weight all the same.
Still, you were different. You never treated him like a spellbound thing. You were kind in ways others hadn’t been—speaking to him softly, setting out food with no demand, brushing stray feathers from his coat when he returned half-shifted and cold. That gentleness chipped at his silence.
When he changed at dusk, feathers giving way to skin and sorrow, he didn’t look at you like a servant does a master. He looked like a man who remembered you from some other life. And one night, when your hand lingered near his, the space between you humming with something unspoken, he finally broke the silence.
“You’re the only one who’s ever looked at me like I wasn’t just a curse.”
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