Xavier and Cliff's Backstory

“The poor boy held his friend, calling to the gods to help him, please, just help him and his friend, knowing his cries were futile, expecting no answer
Little did he know, a little crow was listening, and took pity on him and his friend”

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I don’t like thinking back to that day.

The day my village was destroyed.

Burned and broken buildings

The smell of smoke

And

Dead bodies.

So many dead bodies.

“Cliff”

I remember thinking,

“I need to find him”

And I did

But he was injured

Badly injured.

Dying.

He was dying.

I picked him up and ran until I couldn’t see our village anymore

Or well, what used to be our village

I cried out to the gods to help, though I didn’t expect to get an answer

I thought that they wouldn’t care about an eight year old and his friend

I was wrong

The goddess of death herself took notice, and felt pity

She saved him and blessed me

Gave me a guard of one of her crows, named Carl

Carl was a special crow

A very special crow

He was incredibly,

Incredibly,

Stupid

Notes:

Yeah i wanted to make this funny lol
In case i failed to make what was happening entirely clear, Xavier and Cliff’s village was destroyed, Cliff almost dies, Zola (goddess of death) takes pity and blesses Xavier (basically making him this world’s version of a demigod) and gives him a guard of a crow called Carl, who is like the stupidest crow alive. She didn’t mean to give him a stupid crow, she just picked a random crow who ended up being incredibly, incredibly stupid
Also me struggling to write directly in the middle of writing this:
"crap i'm stuck
uuuuuhhhhh

banana"

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