Abigail Hobbs (
unshattered) wrote2017-02-02 01:56 am
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At some point, she stops at a tree with large roots that wrap around its trunk and spider across the soil. Abigail doesn't know how long she's been walking. Time doesn't feel the way she knows it did once before. The thing she thinks of as the sun, can be midway in the sky and then at dusk when she blinks. Though there's always been light through the leaves above her, Abigail has a certain feeling that days have passed while she's been walking.
It's cold. She should be colder in her small brown jacked and red scarf. Abigail crouches by the tree, and then slips between the roots. The space isn't big enough to fall through, but enough for her to lean back against the trunk, cradled in the roots along the tree.
It's cold. She should be colder in her small brown jacked and red scarf. Abigail crouches by the tree, and then slips between the roots. The space isn't big enough to fall through, but enough for her to lean back against the trunk, cradled in the roots along the tree.
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In a branch somewhere higher along the tree, a pair of dusty black boots swings back and forth.
Back and forth.
Said dusty boots are accompanied by a ragged black-feathered bird, perched comfortably atop the tied-together laces.
"It is a thing, with dirt."
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It doesn't take long for her to spot the bird, but she doesn't speak. After a few a seconds, her hand loosens on the bark.
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"I am, I think, not going to eat you. So."
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She only answers, through clenched teeth, "Good."
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Then she drops down to sit cross-legged in the dirt, making herself comfortable.
"Perhaps. It is not so easy a thing to tell, that."
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But she takes a deep breath, and her shoulders sag slightly. She lifts her hand from the root, and hooks her finger along her dark hair, as though to tuck it behind her ear. Except, of course, that she can't. When she lowers her hand, her hair falls back into place.
"I don't stay down."
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It's like agreement. If you squint.
"Though I wonder, yes? If you are wanting to be found."
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"Does it look like I wanted to be found?"
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"Possibly not for someone human, I am thinking."
Then she grins, quick and bright.
"Or mortal. So."
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Raven tilts her head, the angle painful-looking.
"That, too, I think, is for being interesting."
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"You're not really saying anything."
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"Girl or deer or teacup, then. Which are you?"
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But -
"Only girls can talk."
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"You are, I think, not for watching many movies."
And then she is a bird again.
"Or, perhaps, for paying attention. Still. Girl is not so bad a thing."
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"You're not really a bird."
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The bird caws out a rough laugh, wings flaring a bit as it resettles on a nearby root.
"It is for keeping the world entertaining. So."
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Raven is just saying.
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She takes two steps, but stops, and turns back to snap at the bird -
(- it's not a bird but she still feels weird yelling at a bird -)
"I'm not a toy."
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And the bird is a woman again, sitting cross-legged on the ground.
"For you. There are, I am thinking, people here who will try. So."
Best to be prepared.
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"I know."
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"It is why you are wandering out here, perhaps?"
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It's not rhetorical, where there are already deer and teacups involved.
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"If you are not for being certain, perhaps."
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Eventually -
"Trees are better than walls."
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There is a feather resting neatly on her out-thrust palm.
"If you are for being brave."
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"What is it?"
- she asks, now feeling weird for asking this about what is obviously a feather.
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Raven grins, wild and bright.
"And fly."
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What she is feeling is that she has nothing to lose.
So this time, she doesn't hesitate before reaching out toward Raven's hand.
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Though there is a tangled set of knots of blue thread at the base.
"Think bird."
Raven is still grinning. Some might call her pleased as punch.
"To change. And think of yourself to come back. Landing first will be better, I am thinking. Still."
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The feather blows up toward the trees. A small bird, with smooth spotted with white and shaded with green and gold, darts down toward Raven's hand.
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"It is not so inappropriate, this."
The feather Abigail was holding has returned to Raven's hand again.
Her smile remains no less wild.
"Shall we?"
And then she is flinging Abigail's bird-body skyward, leaping into the air in her own bird shape to follow.
Tag is best when it is not played alone.