> [!info] Metadata > - length:: microfiction > - time:: 2000 BTA, before [[Finding Winged Island Story]] > - market:: [[Chronicles of Verraine Anthology]] / [[The Iceberg]] > - protagonist:: Voldshee underworld god > - mentions:: > - location:: [[Voldshee]] < [[Maehlorn]] < [[Verraine]] > - pitch:: Origins of the [[Maehlorn Trees]] > - afterword:: [[2021.09.01a From hunting friend to wartime foe]] > - wordcount:: 55 > Once, an exile was saved by a particularly gregarious raven: it led her to a corpse grove. When she split the skulls and shared the choicest meat, it took the form of a god, plucked out its eye, and planted it like a seed. - - - She lived beneath that tree until the end of her days. ## Analysis - [[2021.09.01a From hunting friend to wartime foe]] - [[A Storytelling of Ravens by Betty Wheelwright]]