Philomela's Fear of Flying

"Fly Free My Little Canary!"/"Fly Free My Pretty Canary!"

This is a short story I wrote for my Creative Writing Fiction class based on a prompt in which we were asked to "draft a scene or story in which a character does something that is surprising, but, at the same time, in keeping with their character".
I want to give credit where credit is due. Some of the contents of this story were drawn from the following sources:
Philomela-Ovid's Metamorphosis
Stella-Luna Janell Canon
"She no longer cared what they thought. However, she'd been sitting in the nest for so long she had become detached."-The Re:Visionist Miranda Mellis "All I can do for now is sit here and languish/I'll only get cuts and bruises" Jin's Awake
"The Horror The Horror!"-Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad