Broken Wings

Chapter 1

Alana is a 21 year old. She has wings. She can fly anywhere she wants. Alana was flying to the Meadows to collect some sunflower seeds for her mother when her wings suddenly collapsed. She fell to the ground. Her wings had broke. They were all torn and ripped. 'Help!' she cried but there was not a person in sight. 'Help!' she repeated. She started to cry. Her tears fell slowly down her face and landed softly on the ground. The tears fell into a hole and suddenly by magic the animals and the woodlands could talk. The big oak tree stood in the middle with its branches spreaded out. All the animals were perched on the branches. Alana asked the big oak tree if he knew the way to the leaf burrows. The big oak tree said 'you seem to be in a bit of a sticky situation here, but I do not know the way, perhaps you'd better ask one of the animals that live on my branches'. Alana nodded and turned to face the squirrel that sat on the lowest branch of the tree. 'Excuse me Mr. Squirrel, do you know the way to leaf burrows?'. 'i do but i will only tell you if you get me a drink of fresh water'. 'ok Mr. Squirrel'. What could I use to put the water in and where can I get water from? Alana thought. Oh! there is a pond over there that I could get the water out of, and maybe I could make a cup or bowl to drink from. 'excuse me sir' Alana asked a passing man, 'do you have any wood I could borrow?' the man said 'yes of course' he reached into his brief case and pulled out a big chunk of wood. 'thank you very much!' Alana said. She went to a bench and carved a bowl with the wood. 'All done!' she shouted. She went to get the water from the pond. 'there.. we.. go..' she said while filling it up with water. 'Here you go Mr. Squirrel' Alana said, handing the bowl to the squirrel. 'thank you' he replied and he downed the whole bowl of water in one go. 'follow me, i will bring you home'.