NW:BD - Air to the Wing
Title: Air to the Wing
Word count: 104 (so close!)
Series: NW (BD)
ljs100 challenge: #043-Animals
Notes: Characters and world belong to LJS. Title from the featured quotation by Jose Marti.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
-Jose Marti
Free as a bird. The cliché clung to Miles like a shadow as he swooped and soared over the trees. Not all birds were free, after all, and not all cages had bars. A wrist, a leather band, a few choice words: those seemingly innocuous things formed his prison. Never again would he doubt the power of words.
The leather band seemed to tighten on his leg-Sylvia's way of telling him to return to her. Free as a bird, Miles echoed darkly as his falcon body descended. That was one cliché he'd no longer say-if he ever got to say anything again.
Word count: 104 (so close!)
Series: NW (BD)
ljs100 challenge: #043-Animals
Notes: Characters and world belong to LJS. Title from the featured quotation by Jose Marti.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
-Jose Marti
Free as a bird. The cliché clung to Miles like a shadow as he swooped and soared over the trees. Not all birds were free, after all, and not all cages had bars. A wrist, a leather band, a few choice words: those seemingly innocuous things formed his prison. Never again would he doubt the power of words.
The leather band seemed to tighten on his leg-Sylvia's way of telling him to return to her. Free as a bird, Miles echoed darkly as his falcon body descended. That was one cliché he'd no longer say-if he ever got to say anything again.