The Raven queen

Chapter 9

Its the day . Its the day for the feather ceremony. The whole jungle is decorated , the king and his ministers are very happy . They finally have the protector , the prince they  needed and they have nothing to worry about. looks like I am the only raven who is facing lots of trouble now and others are totally fine.

Bird of different administration , kingdoms are going to be here. The feather ceremony is very important for every bird and its rule made by our ancestors which is followed generation wise is that ,  during every feather ceremony every bird from each bird spices , one from the royal family and few of their members should arrive and attended the ceremony.

And that's why a huge arrangement has to be done for the party. I carefully put a cloth on Edward , only making his tiny head visible and put him in our nest so that others could bless him . Before the rituals its suggested to cover the baby with cloth which I did. I wore a Garland of flowers since I am officially the ' Royal mother of future king ' now and that's a respected post.  

our ' Royal common tailor bird ' has made nice carpet with petals of rose for the prince to sit in , she is the one who made crowns and ornaments for the royal family and her team has made leaf cups and plates for the guests and carpets for the royal family to sit in. Must say she and her team did and a very good job.

Daffodil is leader of the ' Tailor bird team ' and she works only for the royal families and must say her payment is really high and quality of her work...just too good.

A lavishing arrangement of food is done by the food delivery survice of jungle land....why you thought only you have swiggy service ?.

As different birds are coming , different food items are made.....huge  heaps of sweet fruits , large juicy insects , fresh meats , fish from oceans are brought and neatly placed on a huge banana leaf , fresh honey from the honeybees are brought ( Mr Bear and his family are in honey business for ten years now and they sells the fresh honey of the forest. Each jar cost us five red stones ....I will explain about our currency later ).

some human foods which are hugely favored by some high society birds so it's specially brought for them  , seeds ,   fresh water of the rivers with huge blocks of ice in them to keep them cool  are arranged for the party.  Birds and ravens from different forests arrived for the party , bringing gifts for the new prince.

I could see the song birds setting their instruments and their leader ' the nightingale ' busily working on her notes to perfect her every tune. she is sipping her own home made nectar to refresh her neck and keep it strong from the leaf cup that placed beside her and  instructing her members to follow her dutifully.

The dancer group has also arrived , their is going to be a huge program of dance and the famous dancer ' Pepricorn - de - le ' ( a male peacock ) has been called for the program. He is the handsome and talented dancer of the jungle , he has arrived with his group . Must say Asher has done a good job in arranging the program.

we sat on our thrones and the program began , our Royal priest and other priests did all the rituals and sang the hymns of our religious books sitting around the new prince. Than began the party , I particularly made sure no one feed anything to prince without getting it checked by the royal doctors. I packed some foods for wise owl since she could attended the party and send it to her ...hope she enjoys her meal.

WISE OWL ( POV )

" Wise owl are you awake ? " came a harsh voice disturbing my sleep but its voice of the personal maid of queen Shelley one whom I can't avoid. " yes dear , what brought you here so early in the morning ?" I asked her.

" Queen Shelley has send food for you , the party is going great and she has send me to give you food. " she said from outside not getting in. " How kind of her , do thank me on my behalf dear. " I told her and she flew away to join the party. I dragged in the big body of the rat hunted just for me. I hate her but a nice meal should always be appreciated

Now , you may wonder why I hate queen Shelley ? well, not her....I hate her husband and I want to destroy him. see , I shifted in this jungle with my husband Jordan many years ago , we were newly married and thought to make nest and stay here in this beautiful jungle.

Here , Big ruling birds are very less , the arrogant eagles doesn't stay here , not any big hunting birds , just ravens , little song birds , tailor birds , woodpeckers, nightingales, peacocks were their but for some reasons half of the population left the jungle and others were bribed and given extra facilities to stay in the jungle  and other small birds , they have their rulers but king Asher is their ultimate king.  And we came to live in their kingdom.

At first things were good , their were no more owls excluding us but we have fine neighbours to communicate with. I became pregnant here and was happy when I gave two eggs , my husband was happy. But one night when my husband was out for preying for food that viper...creped into our nest and eat my two eggs , I tried to stop him but failed. My husband who came back that time fought with viper but at last lost his life in the battle.

I complained, cried in front of the king and the priest but viper being their own they denied every complain filed against him,  I even requested queen Shelley but she couldn't do anything she told " I am sorry for what happened with you but I know my husband is never wrong. Hope you have a good life ahead with kids and husband... start new , start fresh. " she said that and left me without any hope. That time I promised myself that I will take revenge for my husband's and children's death.

I left the jungle for sometimes and meet with someone ( name can't be mentioned) who wanted to take revenge from the queen as much as I do and together we planned our revenge. I came back in disguise and started giving knowledge and herbals like our ancestors did and soon became ' the wise owl of the jungle '  and got very close to the queen.

I destroyed her reputation by making her queen who can't reproduce , I made her experience pain of separation while her husband was alive , I burned her in the fire of cheating husband  and soon would make her cry blood.

I killed viper and I know my husband and children's souls are at peace and once everything is done I will leave this jungle forever.... and go somewhere to stay in peace. This room still reminds me the broken shells of my eggs , the soulless body of my husband... but I have to be strong and stay. I can't get weak before the final day.