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WHO: Edd and his roommate Hux
WHERE: In De Chima Number I Forgot
WHEN: morning of the 8th, within the 24 hours before Dooku's Big Moment
WHAT: Edd's raven makes a prediction. Edd doesn't know what it means, and Hux apparently does.
WARNINGS: Nothing right off the bat, but who knows.

Edd wasn't sure about his new power. For one thing, he hadn't spoke to anyone about it. He received a pet raven from the Porter? How nice, he suppose. But then it started to be a very chatty bird. He knew that some ravens like to mimic sounds they hear nearby, but this particular raven seem to be able to string more words together than the usual raven.

But then it made its "prophecies noises", as Edd begun to call them. Noises that seemed random, but instinctively he will know it's no mere gibberish. According to the scrap of parchment he received, the raven can predict the future from a day from now, and Edd will be able to know which sound it makes is a prophecies or not. Handy, if it wasn't for the fact that the only way it will let Edd know of something by mimicking a sound or a spoken word (perfectly mimicking the speaker as well), but it can't tell him when or where that happened. So in all, a half useful bird if he understand its prophecies, but utterly useless when he can't. Still, the raven made a better companion than his house-mate Hux. Edd made a certain point to keep the bird strictly into his own room and not let it fly around the house, particularly around Hux. The man was colder than Thorne, and even less sentimental.

This morning, Edd was eating his breakfast in the dining table when his raven swooped in and stole a piece of ham steak. "You bleeding thief," Edd grumbled, spearing the rest of steak with his knife. "One of these days I'll let you outside fend for yourself."

"Thief," the raven replied, eating Edd's breakfast. Edd sighed.

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"Keep your animal under control," Hux said as he stepped into the kitchen, wrinkling his nose at the sight of the raven. He wasn't fond of nature and birds were just disgusting creatures to him. And having that creature in the kitchen? Hopefully, Eli Vanto was keeping things tidy.

He went to the coffee maker to start it since he had to head to his office in a bit, he had a full day ahead of him so today was not a day to just sit around. "I trust you are cleaning up after the thing."

Edd ignored Hux as he puffed on his coffee, the one drink from this world he's taken a likening to. A shame the Night's Watch don't have a drink like this, he imagined the men will be less likely to sleep their watch and fall off the Wall if they had coffee.

The raven, however, heard Hux and turn its head toward, the beady intelligence aimed straight at the young man. "Clean," it repeated, in Hux's voice nonetheless, before diving in to steal a piece of egg off of Edd's plate. Edd waved at hand at it, protecting his breakfast. "Next time I'll eat you," Edd threatened, knowing that he really can't do it to his own powers. It's like dinging his own sword for cutting someone.

"Eat," the raven replied, cross. "Eat," it repeated. Edd was starting to to think to grab the bird and throw it out when it spread its wings and let out a a sound Edd never heard before. It reminded him of a shadowcat's growl mixed in the rumbling of one of the cars outside, with a weird trill that he can't put a word on it. But what he do know was that the raven was making a prophecy.

Hux wrinkled his nose at the bird, not at all amused but he turned his attention back to the coffee while checking messages on his phone. Client emails, operational affairs to attend to- it was going to be a busy day.

But he was distracted as the bird began to make a unique sound. The sound of a lightsaber- though not the rough sound of Ren's. He slowly turned around, eyes narrowed.

"Your bird- where did it learn that sound?"

Edd gone back to his breakfast, seeing the raven was busy making its prophecies and he had a chance to finish it unmolested.

"The bird can tell the future. A gift from the Porter, unfortunately for everyone. Sounds like somebody left the keys in their little self-driven carriages."

"It tells the future by making noises? That's rather useless." Lightsaber noises didn't narrow things down given the amount of Force users on the planet.

"It would be useful to know some context, at the very least."

"Tell me something I don't know," Edd grumbled, wiping off his plate. The raven shrieked and made more of the lightsaber sounds, sounding furious, as if the saber itself was in perpetual combat, sparks flying from its powerful blade. "Half the time it says things I don't understand. What's is white collar crime? A stealing a man's clothes? Useless bird. "

Edd got up, taking his plate and cup. "The only thing that's certain that whatever it is that's happening, it will happen within twenty four hours. According the paper, anyway."

"That doesn't anything down either." There were at least five Force users with lightsabers that he knew of- apparently at least one of them would use their lightsaber in the next day so there was nothing he could really say.

"If the bird is useless, why do you keep it?"

Edd sucked on his teeth, being a man not caring of oral hygiene. "Seven knows I'm tempted to eat the damn bird, but no. I tried to leave it behind but it follows me everywhere. And if I do eat the bird, the Porter will bring it back. Ravens are smart and they remember faces, and they like to make friends. Bad enough I have my own raincloud that pisses on me, I don't want a raven that wants to take a bite out of my face and can know the future and can bring friends."

Edd had the feeling that if he died here, this raven will be first to eat his eyeballs.

Hux gave a disgusted look- even this primitive world had toothbrushes at least but it seemed Edd hadn't yet made that discovery.

"So we're stuck with it." He was not fond of animals or anything relating to nature given he had spent most of his life in space. "Just clean up after it or I will roast it."

Edd shrugged, not feeling all that alarmed. He shares the indication of eating the bird too.

"You hear that, you carrion eater? Best be on you best behavior."

The raven preened its feathers and looked at Edd. "Good boy," it said sadly.

Hux made a face as he finished making his coffee, watching the bird.

"I will let Ren fry it if it bothers either of us." And he wouldn't feel bad about hurting an annoying bird.

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