"One small sound" how do you fly how do you fly little bird I want to fly like you let me fly I want to let the thermals take me up and the winds take me down just like you you are a sailor so graceful not like me I fall tumbling down to the rocky ground but I don't mind I want to fly more than anything because the warriors can fly and I want to be like them and Spider Spider can fly already he can go to gatherings "Can't pick them out, can't press them in- I'll never hide my scars" This time it feels different feels like giving up I bet you never gave up little bird you were a warrior and you succeeded just like how I am going to succeed I know I can because if I can't I don't know what I'll do "Familiarity breeds... indifference" and this time I jump just like I always do and I flare my wings just like I always do but I do not fall and I am not weightless like they said I would be I am so heavy a creaking mass of bones and flesh not meant to fly but I do flight is so fragile and I must stay up in the air so I flap and flap and flap and I stay there and I do not fall and I am like you little bird I see you winging off to the stars I can come with you little bird Yes I can "I said it (I didn't!)" you flap and I do too all the others fly so naturally but this is my first time so I am wide eyed floppy winged tail fanned out happy to be up here so I can join the rest of you "Admit it, you were never going to get it" and now I am free "I was always gonna get it"
Notes: I've never really liked the 'a bird without its wings cannot be free' thing because, well, my bird can't fly (though he does have wings, they aren't clipped or anything and he doesn't appear to be in any pain so we honestly don't know why). And he does perfectly well. But he doesn't really have any other members of his species to be jealous of anymore after his adoptive brother *cough* left *coughcough* (my live bird's all good btw, I think if anything he's happier, which is disturbing but good for him lol), and I assume it would be different in FalconClan with a lot of flying members. So I've used the phrasing here mainly because of the literal implications of being a flying cat in FalconClan: you can safely leave camp, and the mountains. You can be free. So that was my reasoning for using that phrasing. uhhhh poetry I guess who knows quotes from November by Sparkbird music is November by Sparkbird unfortunately it is August lol, sorry about that
