One Set Of Wings

Innocent Lie

Vivianne

Sometime during my crying fit I'd managed to fall asleep, only to be awakened by the smell of food. I rose from my position on the floor, groaning every step of the way.
Food! Glorious food!

There was a small wooden tray just within my cell, the food looked amazing even though I had absolutely no clue what it was exactly.
There was some sort of meat, but I've never seen meat that was bright pink like this, a pile of purple looking fruit or vegetables? And a small bottle of the bluest water I'd ever seen, it didn't matter what it was I was starving. I began to scarf down the food like the ravenous animal I was beginning to think they thought I was.

"Psst. Girl!" The man from yesterday whisper yelled grabbing my attention.

"What-" I ask, though with a mouth full of food it sounded more like gibberish.

"What did they ask you? Go ahead and swallow I'll wait." He said with a scowl.

"They asked me about the lights, and what I was doing up on the mountain, though they used a name I've never heard used for it." I explained to him after I had finished my food, though I was a little skeptical about this man and if I should be telling him these things.

"Yeah they do that a lot, something about the spirits with the world deserving names of their own. But, wait, did you cause those lights?" He asked.

"Ummmm," I draw out hesitating to answer him.

"Go on you can tell me," he tries to persuade but if anything it just made me clam up even tighter.

"No thanks, not until I figure out what happened first or why they care so much." I blurt out not wanting to talk to him anymore.

"Seems fair, I guess I'll find out when news spreads of your death and what you did to die." He says and I know it's just to bait me into talking but it makes me more worried than anything.

I really need to find a way to live longer, like more than just a few days. My mother's disappearance often made me think about my own morality not just our old memories together. I don't know what waits for me but I don't want to die yet, I have so much more life to live, this just can't be it for me.

"Lights out!" A gruff voice called from down the hall, and it made me realize just how long I'd been asleep again. I keep wasting days asleep... well not anymore, I'm gonna start living.

Though I suppose that'll have to wait until tomorrow morning. If I live that long...

I begrudgingly stood up and walked over to my little window, my little glimpse into a world I've only ever dreamed about. This time I saw something particular, the biggest bird I'd ever seen in my life! It was fairy close by, almost like I could reach my hand out and touch it.

It looked like a massive crow, it's dark feathers seemed to change into all the colors of the rainbow all at once.

I closed my eyes and began to image what it would be like to soar high above the sky, the clouds, over everything. Without a care in the world, that must be what that bird must feel like...

With a sigh I opened my eyes, only to be disappointed that I was still in the exact same place no closer to the sky than before. I trudge to the cot I now call a bed, and with a groan I lay back down. I reach down under my shirt and poke at my stomach, it still hurt but was no longer bleeding- lucky me.

Next time I'm around those creatures I really should ask them for some healer to come and help me out. I close my eyes thinking about flying away once again and a dreamless sleep soon follows.

"This is it?" A women's shrill voice asks penetrating my sleep. Man I'm really starting to get annoyed at not getting to be woken up own my own, I mean i've probably had enough sleep but come on!