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Memory 2
Dove was 8. Alerina dropped Dove onto the bed and hurried out without fully shutting the door. The visitor had come in and almost had the opportunity to see Dove, but Alerina managed to get Dove into the room right before the entrance door was opened.
Suddenly a dove swiftly flew into the room and nearly skimmed Dove's face as it passed and flew straight into the wall behind the bed. Dove gasped as it fell to the bed, a couple of feathers drifting behind it.
Dove crawled to the still bird and picked it up. It lifted its head and looked into Dove's eyes. Dove gasped as she sensed its pain, and it pulled one of its wings in, the other hanging limply over the edge of Dove's small hands. Dove could sense it was just a month old and a female, along with dazed and confused. Then the bird regained her senses and slowly flipped over and pulled her feet under her body and stood up. It jumped off of Dove's hand and tried to flutter away, but only fell to the bed.
"Your wing is broken," Dove whispered to the bird, using her ability to communicate with animals for the first time out of her mother's lessons.
Dove picked up the dove again, this time the proper way, with the bird's feet at the bottom of Dove's cupped hands and the child's thumbs gently wrapped around her wings. Her wings were shaking and Dove noticed that her tail was fanned, both signs of fear. Dove held the dove closer to her body and whispered, "I'll have to take care of you," as she stroked the bird's breast feathers with her finger. She knew that nothing could really hurt the dove in Azarath if she couldn't get high, but she wasn't sure that the dove wouldn't hurt itself. The dove began swiftly shaking her head left and right and Dove stroked the feathers on her back. "Shhh… You're fine… I won't hurt you." Dove continued to verbally comfort the frightened dove until she calmed down, then she put the bird on the bed. "Don't leave the bed. You'll fall." The dove looked back at Dove, and Dove began to feel a bond with the bird as the black and amber-gold eyes gazed into her violet eyes.
Dove watched the bird walk around the bed and look at her new surroundings for nearly an hour before Alerina came in and told Dove, "I'm sorry that took so long… Where did the dove come from?"
"She flew in. Her wing is broken."
"Oh. Has she been with you the whole time?"
"Yes."
"Is she okay?"
"I think."
"Do you… Want to keep her?"
"I think she likes me."
Alerina looked a bit upset. "Azar tells Raven to not get attached to anything…"
"But she's hurt. She might not be safe if we don't help her." Dove's eyes were pleading.
Alerina sighed. "She can stay… If you promise to not let her out… Some of the people may have some of the powers you do…"
Dove smiled. "I promise."
Alerina sat on the bed and hugged Dove. "Just be careful, okay? I don't know how much affection you can feel without endangering your father's influence being released…"
Dove blinked and shuddered. There had been a few times when she would forget to watch her emotions, and she would lose control of her powers.
"Will I be able to keep her?" Dove looked up at her mother.
Alerina bit her lip. "I…" She looked into Dove's eyes and clucked her tongue before smiling. "Yes we can. We have to get her some food…What will you call her?"
"Ummm…" Dove watched the dove as she walked to the edge of the bed, stopped, and turned to look at her. "Sieara."
Dove smiled as the dove cocked her head. "That's your name now."
"Dove, are you using your telepathy?"
Dove looked back to Alerina. "Yes."
"That's great, Dove!" Dove had been having a lot of trouble with her powers since Azar had ceased living. Alerina smiled and stroked the dove's back. "Sieara it is."
Ands so Dove begins her life-long relationship with Sieara.
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I used my own pet dove as a model for Sieara, and except for the broken wing, this is pretty much how Fizzy acted when I first got him.
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