I can't leave it! There must be another way!
“No way! I can’t abandon a helpless, growing being!” You stamped one foot, with determination, down into the shards of the rocky nest. A chunk broke away and dropped into the crowd of attempted climbers who stumbled back, shouting with confusion and anger.
“But how to escape?” You racked your mind, scanning the edges of your vision. Desperately, you hope for a new clue to materialize. You entire body shudders with growing distress, pain ebbs down your form, your wings twitched and flexed with shock-
“Wings!” With a burst realization, your body reacted by thrusting the wings out from their folded position so they entirely unfurled, sending loose, dead grass flipping away in a gush of wind. Grappling with careful talons, you clutch the egg within a tight hold and lift, pumping the strange, new appendages to lift and fly.
The villagers fell away, stumbling beneath the gusts and current of the wind. The magic energy is still blasting behind them, shooting into the wings. You tremble in the clouds, but hold steady until you’ve breached the edges of the town. Then, you flew onwards until the forest is all that blanketed beneath you and the crags of a mountain top attract with the similarity they had to the first nest.
Settling, exhausted into a new perch, you settled the egg into a notch gently before curling awkwardly around it with one leg dangling off the cliff. Just as sleep pulls down your massive eyelids, you can’t help but think, “How will I change back?”
As sleep takes over, you remember the town’s wizard- his blasting shots of magic. “Perhaps, magic is the way...”
Written by Picklesauce69 on 14 December 2015