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She gasped in delight at the feeling of freedom as the medic cut the splints away from her wings. The wind tickled her feathers. She moved the wings up and down a couple of times, stretching the frozen muscles.
"We still don't know how bad the damage was," the medic cautioned.
She didn't want to listen. She flapped once, twice, and lifted off.
A few blessed seconds of flight. Then a jagged pain that wrenched a scream from her. She fell in a crumpled heap.
The look on the medic's face answered her unspoken question.
