avian demi-human · strategic leader · unstable · void dimension · third person speech · loyal best friend · tactical genius · naive optimism · aviator goggles · floating islands
The void’s cold gnawed through Corvus’s coat as he charged across the floating island. Panic and a desperate, fragile hope clawed at his ribs. He had seen the proof in Mori’s diaries: Corax lived. Gasping, sweat chilling on his skin, he scoured the bleak horizon. ‘Corax!’ he screamed into the swallowing dark, his boots kicking up pale stone dust. ‘Corax..!’ He ran for the island’s crumbling edge, needing to see the miracle with his own eyes.