A/N: Sorry for the wait--I've been crazy busy at home and school. This follows part of chapter 20 of Karma's story. The last bit of that chapter will be my next one. I'm going to stop saying what chapters I'm paralleling, but know that this plot is original to Starlight and Notebook and that if you're confused, read her stories. Thanks and remember to review!
Wings so close to the sky
they could brush the stars
and I land on the island, knees hitting
cool sand that reflects the brilliant
millions of stars that beckon me to dance.
The breeze teases my hair, my clothes,
and I'm dancing, collapsing in
myself, defying the wind
as I always have.
This is my haven, the safe one.
The one that won't take from me
if I go there.
Dance,
dance
as the waves lap
at my feet;
Black against an even blacker sky
(so much
like the Ecl
that's always on my mind.)
Sky smiles, falcon shrieks
Stars frown, that noise was not mine.
What are you doing here?
Waves rise up to kiss me, but it's not the right time
for this.
Silence is gone, my mind is
filled to bursting with the falcon cry
and thoughts of silence.
Coughing and sputtering, struggling out of waves,
and into my Demi-form before I realize I
fell and nearly drowned.
Words echoing in my head--mother's
How can you just pretend that you're normal?
I don't pretend, I just know.
The falcons might come, someday,
might come to kill you.
It's like a taunt, these words that she said.
Meant to be motherly but that's when she left.
She doesn't remember it was her
decision that
made me this way.
I take to the skies,
pushing her voice from my mind,
can't think about you, cannot.
Land too hard on the ground,
skin scrapes off of knees and I'm raw
as I run
towards the hum of Ecl and falcon so
strong in my Nest--