Jewel was bored.
After she had bought all her supplies she had returned to the book shop and sat down on a cushion, wondering what to do next.
"So is this it?"Jewel asked again ,"i just sit here and eat food. No excitement, no danger, no thrill, just empty living?"
"You've asked that question five times now!" Luiz exclaimed, "do you think the answer has changed yet? You better be pondering something deep because if you are focussing all of your brainy bird power on these questions then I don't know what to say."
"I'm just thinking about what it would be like to live like this." Jewel answered ,"in the jungle, you can do anything, you're your own person. You live on the edge, never sure what the next door is. But here... everything feels the same, eat, sleep , drink , repeat. You'r just stuck there, living for the sake of living, not for adventure or thrill."
"You just need to entertain yourself," Luiz suggested ,"before we went to save you, Blu talked about all the stuff he did. He had a skateboard, books, a Wii."
"Well that might work for Blu," Jewel replied, "but I can't just manifest fun and adventure out of thin air. Don't you get that?"
"Nope," Luiz replied ,"I'm happy to just chill. Why don't you explore this place? Who knows, there could be a jungle upstairs."
Jewel rolled her eyes but decided that that wasn't an entirely awful idea.
She walked over to the stairs and noticed that next to the regular human sized spiral staircase was what looked like some custom made tiny stairs.
"That's... oddly convenient." Jewel remarked before scaling the stairs to reach the second floor.
To her surprise, there seemed to be footholds and little ladders everywhere.
"That's strange, it's like this house was made for a flightless blue macaw."
She looked up at the wall and squinted up at the framed pictures on the wall and then realised where she was. It was Blu's old house. That explained why the house seemed perfectly fitted for a flightless bird to move around the house, because it had been modified so that Blu, back when he couldn't fly, could get around.
She climbed up some wall mounted footholds to get on top of a low set of drawers. There she could get a better view of the pictures that each featured either blu linda or both, smiling like they meant it.
She smiled at the pictures that dotted the hallway. The corridor itself was very tidy and clean with various trinkets and memorabilia scattered about, including a large thick book on the table top she was standing.
Out of curiosity, she waddled over to the book and read the title
Linda Blu Photo Album
For a moment she pondered the morality of leafing through Blu's property before deciding to worry about that later and open the book.
She poured over the pages of hours. Each image had a little description underneath it to give some context. There were photos of Blu and Linda Playing catch, of blu helping linda cheet in a test, of treats, of chores, of celebrations.
Jewel had always imagined that pets were caged and abused, conditioned to do the human's bidding but, from what she could see in the pictures, Blu really was a companion.
After binge reading the entire thing, Jewel walked down the stairs and plonked herself down on a pillow.
"Did you see anything interesting?" Luiz asked, waking from his nap. He hadn't moved an inch since Jewel had left, the only change was that a large pool of drool had accumulated around him..
"Well, I found out that Blu used to live here."
"Oh, ok then," Luiz replied ,"i'll be *yawn* here if you need me for something that's worth waking up for."
Jewel looked out the window and saw that the sun was setting, turning the depressing winter twilight of the day into night.
She lay down on the throw pillow and closed her eyes, letting her mind process her emotions and the stuff she had learned in the peace of her own head. Like if she was actually doing blu a favour by trying to bring him out into the jungle, where she felt most at home, what she was going to do about that broken wing and why it was so goddamn cold.
"Boss boss!" yelled one of the lower ranking poachers, "I've got something you might like to see."
"This better be good," the Boss said ,"I don't like having my time wasted."
The man gave his phone to his boss, set ready to play a video from the news. The boss pressed play.
"News just in," said the reporter, "security camera footage and witness reports reveal the bizarre tale of a car driving bird that seems to be heading north.
Last evening a vivid blue parrot which has yet to be identified reportedly hijacked a car in a residential area in Mexico and then proceeded to drive the car north. CCTV footage shows that the bird just recently crossed the border to the US. Most consider this bird a simple troublemaker but does it have ulterior motives?"
The boss stopped the video and sighed.
"Well I can identify that bird," the boss said ,"that's a Blue Spix macaw, one of the last two on earth. Those things are literally priceless."
"What should we do about it, your bossness?" asked the employee.
"Tell everyone to keep an eye out for that fancy chicken, dead or alive and all that jazz. Preferably alive though."
"So no search?" the man said, sounding slightly disappointed.
"Not yet at least," boss said, " when the time is right I shal strike, but as of now, we have no idea where that parrot is."
"Of course your bossness."