Intro: The Raven's Flight

This is a intro to a story/short little blurb I was inspired to write (thank you to WriteWorld on tumblr), but it's obviously not finished yet.

 

The raven flew over the fields of Arasta, it's black wings gleaming in the wake of the rising sun and his shadow stretching over the grass. He seemed to be flying in a known direction. One that was already charted in the bird's mind. It didn't stray in it's flight even as others of its kind flocked around him and raised their voices in a screeching sound. The raven did not stop to eat and drink or to rest. He did not stop as the temperature dropped as the fields ended and the mountains began. He knew his destination and he knew his master would be waiting for him. He had made it over the top of the mountain ; his black eyes now scanned the side of the mountain for any sign of friend or foe, but nothing could be seen through the fog that coated everything.

Before his eyes saw anything he was overwhelmed by a sweetly thick aroma. His heart clenched and a startled caw almost erupted from his throat. He was stunned with a sudden feeling he had never felt. A feeling of dread and fear. Every muscle in his body told him to fly back the way he had come, to flee and warn his kind of a danger he could not yet see. But that was against his genetic code, he was bred to withstand fear. So why had this sudden feeling gripped him? Why did it refuse to release him? The raven's strong wings kept him going, up and down with the wind. But as he began his descent the stench only grew stronger and that was when the scene unfolded before his eyes. The stench belonged to what was left of a battlefield. The stench was that of blood and death.

                                                                                                                               -The Mad Hatter

 

Welcome to Wonderland, Alice

Hello there Alice,

    This blog will hopefully be full of short stories, descriptions, prompt answers, and full stories that I've written. I've been wanting to make a blog to share my writing for a while, but wasn't sure how to start or if my writing was good enough. But by posting things on here I am hoping to grow as a writer.

   The name of this blog, "We're All Mad Here", is obviously based off of Alice in Wonderland, or rather the Cheshire Cat. This story is all sorts of crazy nonsense that in a way makes perfect sense. I've always been fascinated and sort of scared of Lewis Carol's book...but it the one that, if I had never read it, would be a loss on my part.

So let my share a little bit about me:

I have been writing since as long as I can remember. It's been a way to escape along with reading. I like to read/ write mostly fictional stories ( I love coming up with places and people). Fiction, to me, is a way to take all the craziness in the world and put it into a format where I can cope with it. It's a way to change things that I normally would have no control over. I love to shed my own skin and change into something or someone different; be someone else for a short time before returning to a world that is so boring at times.

Books I have read: The Chronicles of Narnia, the Harry Potter series, Divergent, The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Percy Jackson Series, and many others.

              I hope you all enjoy my writings.

                                                                                                                                Yours Truly,
                                                    The Mad Hatter

PS: Welcome to Wonderland!