Over mountains and forests and seas
He swayed and tilted with the tree, which seemed keen to play with its new avian partners – Chuy had a moment of delayed reflection to a story of another tree, one that whomped those that came too near. He was glad this one didn’t seem like that one, all whiplike and dangerous. On the contrary, this one welcomed others near it, invited them with laughter and gentle movements.
‘Maybe it is a gift,’ he suggested, unable to keep the idea from bounding across the bond even as it arrived in his head. A gift, without any deeper meaning or connotations, a simple and welcome gesture that had clearly brought joy and laughter to the region. ‘Maybe it doesn’t have a purpose,’ he quietly added, as the motions settled and slowed enough that he could tuck his wings in closer and simply sit with the strange tree.
‘Another gift arrived recently,’ he said, suddenly unable to contain the joy that bloomed within him at the thought of her, of Kia, returned by the grace of the Voice. Deep affection and a low thrum of pure contentedness was all he felt, all he beamed across the bond as he spoke her name to him. ‘Kiada.’ As if he needed to clarify, and yet he looked to the fellow eagle to gauge his reaction, to seek perspective on this most unexpected, but welcome, turn of events.
‘Maybe it is a gift,’ he suggested, unable to keep the idea from bounding across the bond even as it arrived in his head. A gift, without any deeper meaning or connotations, a simple and welcome gesture that had clearly brought joy and laughter to the region. ‘Maybe it doesn’t have a purpose,’ he quietly added, as the motions settled and slowed enough that he could tuck his wings in closer and simply sit with the strange tree.
‘Another gift arrived recently,’ he said, suddenly unable to contain the joy that bloomed within him at the thought of her, of Kia, returned by the grace of the Voice. Deep affection and a low thrum of pure contentedness was all he felt, all he beamed across the bond as he spoke her name to him. ‘Kiada.’ As if he needed to clarify, and yet he looked to the fellow eagle to gauge his reaction, to seek perspective on this most unexpected, but welcome, turn of events.
to go anywhere that I please
CHULANE
