Fly Away
When you wake up your wound seems to have closed and you decide it's healed enough to go take a flight. You catch some fish in the stream, but instead of returning to the cave you decide to climb the mountain again.
The climb is hard, you almost slip and fall multiple times. But newfound strength and determination brings you to the top. You spend time admiring the landscape when you reach the top. Snow adorned mountain tops, long rivers stretching between the mountains, grass filled cliffs, pine forests. This place was truly beautiful, and you're sad you didn't notice it before. You feel the cold wind ruffle your feathers. It's time. You run until you reach the cliff’s edge, then you jump. You let yourself fall down, let the adrenaline course through your veins, then you spread your wings. The wind catches in them, halting you in the air. You flap them, and they lift you high. The wind is blowing in your hair and across your feathers. You let yourself ride the air, only occasionally flapping your wings. You ignore the sharp pain that occasionally shoots from your wing to your shoulder.
You watch as the mountains disappear, and you're instead flying above a pine forest. You don't know where you're going, just wherever the wind takes you. You watch the mountains grow smaller behind you, and the forest passing by. You think of Enja, and it sends a pang of sadness through your heart. You wish you could tell her about this.
You fly past miles and miles of forest until your arms, your wings, and the rest of your body is sore. The sharp pain in your wing has gotten worse and can no longer be ignored. It's a tightly packed forest, and you struggle to find a spot for you to land, but eventually you find one. There's a small clearing and you land there, quickly grabbing your hurt wing as it falls weak. It's bleeding. You grab a piece of moss off of the forest ground, and press it against the bleeding wound. You're losing blood fast. You press it harder against the wound. You need to find something to hold this in place.
Written by AnxiousRomeo on 06 October 2017
