Aves wrote:Have you ever been in a storm? No, I don't think you have, I can see it in your eyes, you've never lived the nightmare, never heard a child scream as the wind tears them straight out of their parents arms. I know the sound all too well, because those were my screams, and I remember them all together too well. I was blown in the wind, tossed and torn like a piece of trash in the road, and still the storm raged on. Eventually, and I don't know how long this was, but yes, eventually the winds died, and the storm died, and I, amazingly, didn't die. But, although I might have been alive, I was lost, and had no supplies, no way to keep myself in my state of non-death. Until the cranes came. I swear, they saved my life. As a child, I used to love watching the birds, but most of all, I loved to watch cranes. Whenever I saw them, they only went two ways, North in the mornings, and South in the evenings. So, when I was stranded from the storm, I only had to watch the cranes, and follow them North. Everything in our town could be found in the North, and after only a day or two of watching and following the North-bound birds, I found a storm shelter, put together by the beans who had, as of then, survived the terrible disaster. All of the others celebrated when I showed up, alive and in the safest part of town. They fed me, and gave me water, helped dry me off, and asked me how I managed to make it back. So I told them about the cranes, how they saved my life. One of the shop-keepers who sold trinkets found a little wooden sculpture of a crane, strung it, and gave it to me as a necklace. These days, it doesn't fit around my neck, but if I wrap it around my wrist twice, it makes a perfectly good bracelet... But from that day on, I always watched for the cranes, no matter what. I think I owe it to them, them and their perfectly habits that saved a young beans life... Unfortunately, they couldn't save my parents. When the storm was over, and we survivors searched through the rubble, my parents could never be found... It was sad, but I've learned to live on, and not to regret.
