Aftermath
The Flock never talks about their future. They were not meant to live in the aftermath.
Max thinks ahead to their next meal, their next destination, their next goal. She thinks to all of their enemies, hidden and not, and she thinks of what her Flock needs.
Fang looks to Max's needs, because she so often ignores them in favor of theirs. He loves her for her self-sacrificing ways, even as he wishes she didn't have to take it so far. But if she didn't, then maybe she wouldn't be the bird-kid he loves anymore.
Iggy spends most of his time in the present, trying to ground himself in his settings. He hates being blind.
Nudge tries not to think at all, and so she says everything right as it comes into her mind.
Gazzy expertly keeps his mind away from the future, usually by annoying the girls with guy-things.
Angel doesn't try to hide it from herself; she knows exactly where they're going, and she wants to talk to Max about it. But she knows that saying it out loud, admitting it, would kill the teenager she thinks of as her mother.
Admitting that all they have done to survive is in vain.
That if they don't expire one by one, some assassin or bad guy will finally get lucky, and someon will die. Maybe they will ecaptured and this villain will be smart enough to never let them regain consciousness. Maybe it will be an accident, maybe it will look like an accident.
But they don't speak of this one truth. That the world has no place for them. They may never expire. The may live normal lives, except those lives will never be normal. They will never be able to set down roots anywhere, they will never stop being hunted, they will never live any other way than they do now.
The Flock was meant to save the world. They were not meant to live in the aftermath.
