So I'm writing the second part as the first one is waiting to be accepted. I won't post this second until the first gets posted so I can edit the second part to make it better. But lets see what I can do.
Enjoy
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It had to have been coincidence that his dream the previous night and the revelation that his parents spoke about the same topic. There was little news news to discuss when they were so isolated from other people. So with such boring topics to talk about, the one even slightly interesting topic would not have been that unrealistic to imagine being part of the discussion. That had to have been it. There was no way it could have actually happened, Bran thought. People couldn't turn into animals. Dreams weren't real. Just sheer coincidence.
"So, Bran, your father was thinking of this fall, after the farm work was caught up, he was going to a town near Vindius. We have some family living around there."
With a quick reply, Bran came out with, "You don't have to make a special trip just to get me a wife. I'm still young, and there are couple of families with girls that are getting close to marriageable age. I can wait a few years."
"Son, it is not just for you that I'm going. Your sisters also needs some husbands, and your mother wants some things that we can't buy around here. It's only a few days travel, and with some things to sell, I was thinking about inviting you to come with me. If we are looking for a wife for you, you should be able to meet her, and get to know her. It's your life we are talking about."
"I will think about it. But, as I said, you don't have to do this trip just for me." ended Bran.
Conversation continued on for a while, with Bran being a little bit more talkative, at least towards his parents. He still spoke a little with his sisters, all the while, he did keep glancing towards them. With his continual glances, he affirmed his opinion of his sisters, they were beautiful women. But what happened last night could not have actually happened, could it? It was impossible, or so he told himself.
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That night, while in bed, he was restless. Thinking over his dreams last night, his admiration for the beauty of his sisters shamed him, but he could not get them out of his head. Sleep came late for him that night, and dawn came earlier then he desired. But he had no dreams of being a bird.
There was not a lot of working for him to do that day. He had been working hard for the past couple days, working nearly sunrise and sunset, so around midday he decided to relax for the rest of the day and do a little fishing. The family had not had any fish for a while, so it would be a good treat. Walking back home, he passed by his sister who were going out together to pick some blackberries from the patch. They looked beautiful to him, Divone in the blue dress, and Nealie in her red dress. It was still a little early in the year for them to be harvested in large amounts, but some berries were always welcome, or at least some preserves. Either would be a welcome treat at the dinner table.
He arrived home, grabbed his fishing pole, a bucket, some stale bread that he would use for bait, and went to a nice shady place where the fish liked to call home. In the first hour of fishing he managed to catch enough fish for dinner that night and enough that his mother could start smoking them for the winter. Still with a couple hours until he would need to head back to his parents house with his bounty, and being tired from his lack of sleep from the previous night, a little nap sounded like a wonderful idea. Sleep came quick, he was tired after all.
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He was the raven again. That past two times he had been the raven, he never inspected himself. He hoped to the stream and looked at the reflection of himself. Black legs, black beak, primarily black feathers, though on his left wing, he had some white feathers in a small spot near, where if he was human, his hand. Other than the white feathers on the tip of his wing, he looked like any other raven. And after checking, his voice sounded like a raven's.
With nothing better to do, he took flight. The scenery looked different than it did at night. He flew over the fields, where on almost any other day he would be working. From his point of view, that crops were coming up fairly well. The only thing that did look like it was not doing the best, and he was not shocked, were the pumpkins on the north side of the field, toward, what he called, Druid's Grove. Divone came up with that when they were kids, and with no better identification than Druid's Grove, the name stuck. Along with Druid's Grove, they came up with the names Fairies Forest, Hermit Cove, and several others, all nonsense, but better than nothing, they kept. He was not really shocked that the pumpkins were not doing the best. They were on a larger hill that he just created this year, and the shade from the grove did not allow them to get that much sunlight.