[center][h2][i][color=plum]Tia Blackwood[/color][/i][/h2][/center]
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Tia ruffled her black wings as she soared in and out of the trees in the forest that surrounded the castle of the royal family. The rush of the wind through her feathers made her feel free and light. A day playing as the Queen always tired her out. The formalities and the strict code of etiquette she had to follow while sitting on the throne was cloying. 

Her mind was filled with thoughts about the recent events, intermingled with the natural instinct of the raven to look for food. Her beady eyes shifted towards a small movement of the ground. A baby rabbit was emerging from its burrow. 

All thoughts of the Queen and the royal court flew out of her head as she swooped down for the kill. But instead of soft flesh, she found herself crashing against the trunk of a fallen tree as she had unknowingly crossed the portal. She squawked and fell down onto damp, muddy swamp floor. 

[color=plum]"Ugh,"[/color] Tia groaned as she sat up in her human form her hand rubbing the side of her face where she had hit the tree. Her black feathers had tranformed itself into a black cloak that wrapped the whole length of her body. She looked around and noted that she was no longer in the forest that she had grown accustomed to. 

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[color=plum]"Huh... Where am I?"[/color] she asked out aloud as she looked back from where she came from. But instead of seeing bright green and orange trees, there was only the vast expanse of swamp. Still able to use the sharp vision of the raven, she could make out what looked like a town way ahead of where she was. To her right, closer to her than the town, was a [url=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130511192131/villains/images/2/29/The_Gozerian_Cult_Cemetery.jpg]cemetery[/url].