Title: Pegasus goes free, unmounted yet
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from C. Day-Lewis
Warnings: spoilers for everything
Pairings: gennish
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Rachel, wild at heart
Rachel's favorite daydream, one she runs out of time to tell Tobias, and knows Cassie and Jake would never understand (Marco might've) and Ax just wouldn't have the personal knowledge for comprehension, is that she's in bird morph and riding a storm.
She knows it's crazy. Knows it probably couldn't actually happen, that she'd be buffeted around and probably break a wing and fall and fall-
That's why it's a dream. That's why she pulls insane stunts and barrels her way through and laughs in the middle of battle, roaring as a bear or shrieking as a bird, giving herself fully to the bloodlust of a warrior who knows victory at any price.
She's not fighting for morals or honor, or in anger and hatred. She's not Cassie's reluctant soldier or Jake's weary general. She's a warrior finally given focus, given a war.
Rachel's fighting for her planet's freedom, and it's a storm inside her, wind and water lashing together into something beyond anyone's understanding, and she can only unleash it when she's out of her weak girl-shape, and she's an eagle, high in the sky, dreaming about a hurricane to ride.