Chapter 8 - 8

Chapter 8: Chapter 8

...That was my first encounter with the ways of this world. I'm not na?ve or dumb, mind you, and yet one thing is to know that there are dangers out there, and the other... the other is to live through that, to have the sheet of safety and childness unveiled before my eyes.

The cruelty of aiming for the young, of how easily the hopes and dreams for fledgling can turn into mourning.

One glance away, that's what I takes. Is just that easily.

Cruel? Unfair? It doesn't matter for the flow of time, as things work the way things work, in the end... in the end, a kitty cub is an easier target than the mother griffin, and the other just wants a meat in his mouth at the end of the day.

Is just like that. This material is rooted in n0velbin★

And yet as simple as the world makes it look as the matter isn't that meek, and as my mother watches over me after taking me back to the house where I was born to have the help of the winged humanoids, I cannot help but feel depressed about the situation as it play in my mind countless times as I try to find a reason as to why, even if I know there is none.

I few steps out of this shack, not even a day at our nest, and I'm already back and unable to leave, bandages all over my side, nothing serious, they say, but still here I stay with mother again, stuck on this makeshift nest.

My mother barely leaves my side, coiling around me, and as I stay still in pain none of us chirp anymore, save when I get scared by the sounds around us, which only makes her worry more and stiffen around me.

I cannot help it, I'm just a few weeks old and had such a close encounter with death, anyone would be scared stiff by it.

That's how we end up spending my recovery time by, Aaron coming into play once more by bringing in food and water and changing my bandages.

However I ignore her and, unable to convey my thoughts through words yet I show it with my actions, keeping a calm face as I do not stop walking, going down the path we used to go to our home, our nest.

Mother is out of words as she watches my actions, then with a glance at Aaron she follows behind as we go back to our home.

I cannot be worrying her like this again, I'm the only one she has left, we are a family of two and have to stick for each other.

I've never been more certain in my life about something.

I've no time to lose, this world is not for the weak, and it would be reasonable to wait for me to grow and become stronger, but no, I've changed my mind, I need to do as much as possible to turn the odds to my favor.

So I stop once I get close to the river and chirp at it, looking at mother, then back at the river.

"What is it hon? Our furry feathers are no good to swim, is best for you to not go there. Hm? That's not it? Then what is it?" I chirp many times until she understands. "Oh, perhaps is... do you want the name of it? It is water, river."

After a few attempts I finally get her to say what the name of it is and, trying to chirp it out and managing a few syllables, I get excited once more and start pointing at many different things for her to teach me the name of.

"Wood, tree. Soil, earth. Sky, blue." And so on and on.

Ding - Celestial Language 2

Taken away from her worries she starts to get into this, as my achievements and her softening face makes me have a smile on my own.

There is no time to lose now, I have to get stronger no matter what, so I don't ever have to see mother that sad ever again.