Then a Raven Landed on a Rock

David was fascinated. He talked sonem into letting him hang around. Basically he apprenticed himself to this master magician, absorbing the lessons of how to think and perceive the world in new waysdthen one day when they had gone way up into the mountains, everything shifted. We were hiking back along a very narrow trail that wound along the side of a very precipitous mountain slope. And at one point in the trail, he rounded a bend up in front, and i couldn't see him for a stretch. But then as i came round the bend, i saw this raven perched on a large boulder jutting out to the left of the trail, above the the river gorge beneath