Miranda ''The Raven Banner'' – Prologue
She dreamt of a vast forest on fire, while as if time slowed down. She saw immense lengths of spider webs everywhere, sometimes covering entire chunks of the forest, sometimes seeing soldiers and horses stuck in the webs. She saw a raven perched on a branch, pecking the eyes out of a man stuck in the webs. As the flames grew, the spiderwebs also caught fire, and then those trapped in it as well.
Walking through the forest was an immense figure, just a silhouette, wearing a huge robe, and apparently having spiders' legs going out the back but curling around to be raised. As the flames grew, giant spiders jumped around, some on fire, some not. The dreamer felt herself being chased by the giant spiders as they spat webs and poison at her. The huge figure followed her, walking, and no matter how much she ran, the figure always seemed to be coming closer.
Up ahead, she saw a huge castle of granite, the town surrounding it soon to be enshrouded by flames. She saw a big dragon, with scales like mirrors reflecting the flames and everything else, and the dragon flew around in a trance, blasting fire downwards everywhere he flew, as if putting the castle and forest on fire.
Then, strange beings appeared, rising from the shadows, beings of lanky stature, with big white glowing eyes. They came, brandishing swords and shields of shadows, jumping in and out of shadows, popping in and out of reality here and there confusingly. One of the shadowy beings pointed at the castle, and when the dreamer looked, she saw the silhouette of a small figure falling off the castle just as the flames erupted, swallowing the castle in endless flames.
The dreamer felt absorbed by the spiderwebs that flowed all around her, then the smoke, then the flames. She saw was a horse, neighing and running in terror through the blazing forest, burned so cruelly that its body looked like a charred bleeding skeleton.
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