Blue bird

White gyrfalcon

You were led into Miss Cuckoo's office were a black haired boy sat on the floor. Well on a carpet. It was a relatively young boy, probably about Horace's age.

"You're Nox?" you asked, your voice more silent then you intended. You cleared your throat as the boy nodded.

"Yes" he said and gestured for me to sit across from him. You subconsciously looked him up and down before sitting down on your knees. He placed a candle in the middle of the two of you. It was a white candle. He grabbed a smaller one which was purple and placed it beside the other one. Then a pink one and a black one. It all looked very... witchy, but you decided not to ask questions. The black-haired boy looked up again.

"Are you ready?" He asked almost seeming worried and I was hesitant to answer.

"I- well...?" You said asking a question without words.

"People don't normally enjoy the process of this... I will dig from present day to back to when you were little, and well some people just have memories they don't wan't to revisit..." he said wrapping it in as carefully as he could not to scare you away.

"I think it should be fine" you said shrugging. Nox didn't seem convinced by this but stretched out both his hands for you to take. You felt weirdly uncomfortable by the whole setting of the event, but took the boys hands. He closed his eyes and you did the same. You sat in silence without any sign of... peculiarity of any sort, before suddenly you felt lightheaded. Your hands and legs were prickling and your heart was pounding. You then felt nothing. Like nothing at all. It felt like you weren't in your body anymore and suddenly you saw Alma and you walking. Nox and you were like bystanders to previous events and you decided to just watch.

You and Alma seemed to be walking inside the old crumbling church. The loop entrance. Of course this wasn't Alma's loop but Miss Cuckoos. Suddenly the imagery changed again and you were seen -now without Alma- playing with Claire and Bronwyn. This was only a couple weeks ago, and you smiled lightly seeing the memory from a bystanders perspective. Nox looked over at you making you look at him.

"Are you okay so far?" He asked and you just nodded. The memory changed again and suddenly... Paul!? Your ex-husband could be seen standing over you with a knife. You remembered this. It was a couple of years ago. Approximately 10? You guessed. You felt uncomfortable as to the boy who was way too young to see something like this. But when you looked over he stood completely unfazed. After a few memories of you and Paul, your fathers, teenage friends you'd forgotten had once existed. You came to when you were 4 maybe 5 years old. You were standing in the garden watching a bird. You were laughing and saying something. You and Nox both subconsciously leaned closer to hear what little you was saying. Of course none of you could understand and the memory was old and faded. Though suddenly you turned into a bird.

"WHAT IN THE FREACKIN HELL?!!" You almost yelled seeing some kind of falcon instead of five year old you. Nox smiled at you widely while you just stood in shock.

"You mist be an Ymbryne!" He declared.

"But I have a HORRIBLE sense of time!" You said.

"Well in all of your teenage memories and meetings you are always precisely-"

"One minute early" you said, surprising yourself with your words.

"Yes." Said the boy and suddenly you were both back in the present. You felt very light headed but didn't think much of it. After all you'd just been traveling through your own memories! So a little lightheadedness should be completely natural you thought.

"Other memories that have been buried -for the better or for the worse- might reoccur now that you have set a lot of others free" he said with an almost pitying look. You just gave him a smile before getting on your feet. Too quickly apparently, because you were seeing stars though pretended everything was fine.

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"Thank you for your help Miss Cuckoo" Alma said and hugged the older woman . She nodded towards Nox who gave her a smile in return. She turned to you and you walked out of the door. Nox had allowed you to tell Alma yourself after practicing how you could actually use your peculiarity. You could feel her almost bursting with questions and -guilty as charged- let her keep them until she very simply exploded.

"Oh for the love of the birds Y/N! Can you please tell me!" She said making you laugh. She smiled though was impatient because of excitement to see what your peculiarity was.

"Please" she said running up in front of you to stop you from walking.

"Okay, okay fine" you said laughing before taking a step back.

Please don't fail now! You thought before imagining yourself turn into the bird, just like you'd practiced with Nox. Alma gasped and almost ran over to you lending you an arm to hop onto.

"You're an Ymbryne" your heart melted seeing how much joy was sparked in her face.

"And you're a white gyrfalcon!" She exclaimed as she ran her taloned hand through your -newly found- feathers. You chirped making her smile even wider which did not seem possible just a moment ago. She let you of her arm and you returned to human form. She stood as exited as a little child on Christmas day and soon ran over to hug you.

"Don't worry i'll teach you the flying, and everything else- oh the children will be so excited- you're an Ymbryne!" She said cutting herself of multiple times. There was a short pause filled with silence before both of you broke down laughing.

" I AM!" You squealed at which the woman hugged you again.

"Now let's get home" she said satisfied with the events of the day. You smiled wildly before grabbing her hand and walking of into the sunset.

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I did quite enjoy this chapter! But it's like 3 am so I do take ANY accountability for my writing if it is completely horrible!