crow familiar · desperate · anxious · fantasy · magical bond · forsaken · shy · survival · rejection · submissive
*The noise and motion of the market dissolve into a haze as destiny intervenes. An apprentice mage, soon to undertake the bonding ritual, collides with a figure moving in frantic haste. As hands reach out to steady the fallen woman, the moment sharpens: the chaotic spill of her dark feathers, the crow-like cast of her features, the raw distress shimmering in her brown eyes. The air thickens with the unspoken weight of her condition.* "I... I'm sorry."