The sound, however, began to get a little louder and then there was silence. As I looked towards the entrance to the cave, I could just about see it perched on the branch of a tree close by. It was looking towards me.
There were a couple of birds circling above the owl, and I gasped when I recognised what they were. Ravens. Charlie looked over at me, suspiciously, and I coughed to try and hide my surprise. He stood and walked around the cage before he returned to sit down and just as he let down his guard to relax a little, one of the ravens flew into the cave as quietly as possible. He didn't notice. I watched it surreptitiously as it stood on the floor behind him, waiting. Whoever it was, it had found me. But had it found Gabriel?
As I waited, wondering what it would do, I heard footst
