The Prince and the Raven ~ Book 1: The Awakening

Chapter 17: Nothing to Fear

When Nyroc is dead, everyone is dismissed quietly as Nightwind and Renesmee are alone. While they are alone, Nightwind took the handcuffs off of Nyroc's wrist and closed his fathers' single eye. "Nightwind," Renesmee get his attention. "You need to get some rest, you need your strength to hold the power of the Captain for the next day."

"I would like that," Nightwind turns his head. "But...can I at least burry my father before I could rest?"

"Of course," Renesmee answered. "But don't take too long,"

"I won't," he replied as Renesmee exits the throne room. When she left, black dust and feathers has surrounded Nightwind and his father, then they both have disappeared.

At the graveyard; right next to Golden Crown Town, Nightwind was widdling wood with words and he was digging a hole on the ground. When he is finished digging, he grabbed his feathers' body that is wrapped in a rug and put it a hole. Then he covered him up with the dirt that he dug up. When he is done, he put the upside down cross stick at the head of his fathers' grave. He took a deep breath as he settled a white rose on his feathers' grave. "Father," he spoke. "I'm sorry, I have no choice but to do it. It's part of my job, I'd hoped that you aren't angry with me." He looked at the words that he wrote,

Nyroc Darkskies

A Beloved Captain of the Crows

A Beloved Friend/Ally

A Beloved Husband

A Beloved Father

Born: 2912 B.C. ~ Dead: November 11, 2009 A.D.

"But..." Nightwind continue, "I've brought you here so someone from the past could satisfy you or make you happy again." He looks at his left and just put a white rose on the other grave. He looks at the words,

Lenina Darkskies

Beloved Daughter

Beloved Wife

Beloved/Unnoticed Mother

Born: June 12, 1982 ~ Death: August 6, 2003

Nightwind sighed, "Mother..." he spoke, "My name is Coryn...well now its Nightwind...I'm your son," Nightwind sighed again. "Wherever you and father are, please take care of him for me. I thought that he might be happy if you are around him again just like I did when he's alive. But please...let me know that he understands for what I have done." He stood up and started to walk out of the graveyard,

"I do understand...Nightwind," said a familiar voice. "And I do forgive you,"

"We both are so proud of you," said another voice that is a female. Nightwind turns around, and he has realized that no one is there. But he sniffed the air, he can smell two distinct scents in the air; one is his father that he always familiar too but the other is a sweet fragrance that he could barely remember from the day of his birth.

"Mother...father...?" Nightwind whispered as the scents grew faint,

"Please...tell our master to forgive what I have done," Nyroc's voice whispered to his ear.

"We will always be there and watch over you," his mother's voice has too whispered to his ear. "Always," then their voices and scents are gone. Nightwind lightly smiled,

"Goodbye...mother...father," he whispered. Suddenly, black dust and feathers has surrounded him and he has disappeared.

At Nightwind's room, Nightwind has appeared. He has starting to feel light headed and his legs are very shaky. So he took his coat and boats off and crawled into bed. From that moment when he settled down, his world has become dark and vanished as he snoozed on his bed on that day.