Preface:
Broken, scarred. I can't quite catch my breath.
I still see that last trusting smile that Nudge gave me. And the window shattering from the pressure of the built up gas.
I fly out of the window and turn to the flock. Except that they aren't there. Nothing is there except the roaring inferno that destroyed my family.
I was flew at super speed, trying to escape the stream down my face. It had been a month.
Itex in America is all but extinct.
The blast that killed my flock took out the last branch there.
After they died I flew.
I flew across the atlantic ocean and into Italy. That was where Iggy wanted to go for his field trip.
Now, standing in the heart of a city called Volteretta, I broke down.
I hadn't cried since that day.
I curled into a fetal position and sobbed.
I was there, in that dark alley, for hours. I finally blacked out from the exertion of my flight and pain.
Before the world went dark, I was aware of a pair of icy cold arms lifting me off of the cobblestones.