Short Story (2/2)

If huo and catch worms to eat?

I felt guilty

I was so afraid that the little girl would starve to death

This wouldn't do, I had to go find her

Part 8

I left hoain

I flew by myself towards the blue sky, and eventually came to a place called a city

That place was very, very big There were many humans, and the sky wasn't as blue anymore

There were very few trees there and a lot of black smoke, I couldn't find anywhere to sleep

I flew really, really far, and passed by many places

But I never saw her again

The kind little girl who fed me rice

That wonderful home I yearned for

I was surrounded by houses all around

I lost my sense of direction, and my home

Part 9

I saw a girl again, in the center of the city

She tossed ht

She was irl, she must be a kind person as well

I fleard excitedly and landed on the ground I started to eat the grains of rice

However, she suddenly charged forth and it was too late for me to escape

She grabbed onto ht

I was hysterical; I shouted as loud as I could!

I pleaded for hter!

My wings hurt veryoff

I shrilled, I shrieked, and she held onto her stohter

She was clearly irl

Why wasn't she as kind as that little girl then?

Part 10

I was locked into a cage and brought to her home

She showedsmile

And then, all the other huhed

As if praising her

I kept calling every day and night, asking her to release me

However, she appeared to be leisurely and content, as if she were listening to a song

I didn't understand her language, and it see

I was so hungry thatout

She finally gaveI didn't like

Black and yellow little specks, was that what the birds in the city ate?

But I wanted to eat rice grains

I irl

Part 11

She finally threw e and locked another little bird in there

I watched that bird cry incessantly, struggling with all his life

He was saying, ”Save me, save me…”

I spoke to hi him to play dead Play dead

He pretended to die

But I was probably dying for real

So humans were actually so cruel

They would lock you up under the pretense of taking care of you

Torturing you until you died

I was thrown out the , and I landed on the ground below

I looked at the wide, blue sky above and those free birds

I watched a group of little birds flying past above me

They were chittering and chattering, see me, they were extremely shocked

”Look there! Look there!”

”That little bird is crying…”

Part 12

I was picked up and brought to another home

That girl petted leam

She seemed to like my feathers very much; she picked up a pair of scissors

Then she cut off ed them in the shape of a beautiful flower

She placed the flower by theWhat a dazzling sight

Plucked of my feathers, I finally closed my eyes slowly

Why was it that the size of the humans was equal to the amount of evil in their hearts?

Why was it that the sood they had in their hearts?

What a pity that I only realised it now

What a pity, that I didn't even have any strength left to speak…

Part 13

I ain, in the instant I was about to die

He only shook his head and held me in his hands

”Why can't you differentiate between good and evil?”

I spoke up weakly, ”Why are huood and evil?”

However, he s in that kind of environood person yourself”

I fell intomy eyes

”Can I have another chance, to become a human?”

However, the God shook his head, ”You've already ave you a chance now, you wouldn't live past a single day”

With my eyes full of tears, I said, ”That's fine, even half a day is fine I just want to be a human for once”

The God sighed, ”Then I'll give you a single day's ti to do with it?”

I smiled, but stayed silent

One day was enough

Part 14

Finally

I was sent to that little girl

In the form of a human

For the first ti

While she was in the big city, she still loved birds as before

She stood on a brand new balcony, with two little birds as her companions as before

That day, I stood in front of her

I didn't say a single word to her

I only picked up some stones and purposely threw them

Not a single one of them hit the little birds

However, all the little birds she was feeding fleay

The birds were panicked and fearful, and not a single one remained

The little girl burst into tears and asked what I was doing!

I smiled and spoke for the first time

I left that one sentence

”I'ood in the future”

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