How Many Ravens Are in a Storytelling..?

I’ve never been certain how many ravens belong in a story, yet it’s their collective noun.

One is an omen.

Two imply witness.

Three begin to feel deliberate.

Anything more and the counting really starts to matter.

Ravens carry weight because they observe. They remember. They gather at the edges of things and wait to be noticed. In stories, they’re rarely alone, even when they appear that way.

I realised, the question isn’t how many ravens are present in the story, but how many the story can hold before it tips into something else.

And the answer eventually became a story.