Ravinor by Travis Peck

Author:Travis Peck [Peck, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Interlude: Part Two

This is one of several notes that Mon Lyzink dispatched with one Master Finnrick, Legate Shavoli’s secretary. It is the last communique from the famed scholar since his, and his apprentice’s, disappearance. Master Finnrick attests that Mon Lyzink was in good health at the time when he was charged to deliver this packet to the scholar’s tower. Legate Shavoli corroborates her secretary’s statements regarding the last known location of the missing scholar and the circumstances leading up to his disappearance. The first portion is apparently intended for eventual publication, but the last note attached describes more recent events. The following has been confirmed to be written in Mon Lyzink’s hand:

Since the publication of this work two years prior, I have decided an addendum was necessary to take into account what I believe to be a serious behavioral shift seen in our subjects. For the many years I have been observing the ravinors’ curious aversion to sunlight, I had not witnessed any events; nor in fact seen, or heard, any reports that would indicate other than what was, up to this point, as close to a natural law as I have seen.

Ravinors do not go out during the day. Period. They are afraid of, and uncomfortable under, the sun and will do almost anything to avoid it. This was my and countless others’ understanding of the matter. However, over the course of the time that the first edition was published, I have seen and recorded observations that will bring the ravinor’s behavior further into the light. Literally.

The first time my apprentice and I had seen a ravinor out in the daylight, we believed it to be an anomaly. It had been an overcast winter’s day. The clouds were dark with snow, so there were virtually no rays of light able to penetrate the darkness of the clouds above. We were observing, from some distance away, by means of a Felradman Eye Glass (Model 23), a flock of ravinors sequestered in a heavily canopied grove. They were beginning to become active because of the unusually dark daytime skies.

Ravinors seem to possess a preternatural sense of time, at least as it pertains to sunrise and sunset. They were clearly agitated, not trusting their internal timekeeping that told them it should be light for candles yet. One of the ravinors cautiously made its way out from the cover of the trees and into the open terrain. Much like a human would test the ocean waves with a toe before daring to dive in for a swim, this ravinor would take a step out then quickly lurch back to safety. After a number of increasingly distant forays into the open, the ravinor was becoming more comfortable with the unusual circumstance it had found itself in.

More of the ravinors joined in with the first, emboldened by their compatriot’s bravery—and its noticeable lack of catastrophic injury. After a candle’s time spent getting used to the idea, the ravinors began to search around for sustenance, as they normally would after sunset.

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