I fall.
Drop out of the sky
As if I forgot
How to fly.
I don't understand,
but lying here,
sprawled across branches,
Iridescent wings
Maybe punctured,
I screech out my cries for help.
Am I too deep into the forest for anyone to hear?
My vision is fading,
And I want dearly to find
Ecl and its cold numbness.
But it's not there.
Mother's old words come back to me
And I'm hearing her order me not to go back
To the Nothingness.
It isn't safe.
I smile, think how she doesn't even know
Anything.
And yet I still love her.
The beating of wings meets my ears;
It's the sweetest sound in the world.
"Mother?" I call,
but no, it's Acelan.
How could he hear me from so far away?
I ask him as he shifts into Demi-form,
And I'm human again,
But he doesn't look me in the eye.
"It's what friends are for,"
he whispers.
