Things We Never Speak Of

Mahpiohanzia
n. the heavy disappointment of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, unable to leave the weight of people's expectations lifeless on the ground below you. Flight is your reason for being but a gravitational force keeps you tied to the ground, your feathers whither and fall, your wings waste away on foreign land.

This obscure feeling sits in Asante's heart like lead, a sinking feeling takes over whenever she dreams of what waits for her outside the world she knows now, the world she's been tied down to her entire life. What happens if she finds an escape? Will a life of freedom be worth everything she's destroyed to get there?