An Exception

A bird grows up with his family and together they fly away, flitting from place to place as their hearts wish them to go. But one bird feels estranged from the rest, he is not at peace with himself and wishes to find a home in which to rest his head and feel secure and safe from the hunters that search the skies for his kind. Leaving his flock he goes back to his home to discover the one thing he has always been searching for has always been there.

(A side story to "Pricked". In which this short story is written by a girl named Susan Carving.)