Pimm's Tales

Pimm's Tales is a book of parables for children.

Death's Messenger
This parable details a story of life and death. Two women, named Vita (representing life) and Mortem (representing death) are wanton, falling shamelessly in love and spurning all male advances. Their tryst is given as the reason for a plague befalling the town. To Mortem's horror, Vita succumbs to the plague. Unable to let her lover go, Mortem makes a deal with a demon. Taking the form of a raven, she plunges into the underworld to reclaim her lost love, but her trip to the other side breaks the delicate veil between life and death, until death spills over and covers the land.

The Order of the Raven interprets this parable differently.