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BGM: "Hoshi o Wataru Tori" ("The Bird that Crosses the Stars") composed by Nem and sung by Kagamine Len.
Becoming a Bird
An infant comes into the world bloody and screaming. When the blood is washed away, he is still red and wrinkled, with a fuzz of bright sun-colored hair.
A cheerful child finds a strange object at the bottom of the box, and picks it up. It's almost square, a bit like a box itself, but when he tries to lift the lid it flops over halfway and sends dust flying everywhere.
A boy dressed all in black and gold squints at the book, trying to make out the blurred words on yellowed pages. It slips from his trembling hands, and it is several minutes before he can calm down enough to read it.
A too-serious youth pores over the same pages for the thousandth time, searching for messages he might have missed. Somewhere there is a blue planet, and he will find it.
A young man frowns at the figures on the screen, furiously scrolling down to find what he was looking for. The difference is slight, barely detectable even with the lost instruments, but it has to be there.
A quiet man in a white coat walks down a narrow hallway, boot-heels clacking on tile. He is smiling slightly, but there is no joy in it.
An aging man feeds figures into a program he had had written at great expense, absentmindedly pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose, and grumbles at his latest assistant's carelessness. From across the world, those few powers that remain wait with bated breath for answers.
An old man leans back into too many pillows, snapping orders at the nurse as the machines beep incessantly. They're in the final stages now, and they have to succeed.
A dying man clings with all the strength in his frail body to a thick, leather-bound book of stories. As he sleeps, he dreams of a blue sky, of a living world and the star that lights it.
Ashes are released into the vacuum of space, glittering like stardust. Like a bird from ancient legend, the ship crosses the stars.
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