A mystery of our birth

Kotori had been here before at night but as far as he could recall only once.  Normally it was  a spot he visited in the day time with no other real reason than he normally slept at night.  He did remember it had a glow but had it been like this?  Two times wasn’t really much to go off of.

Mort changed Kotori’s line of thought though when he mentioned wings, grinning broadly, “you know, if you told me that last year I’d have tried finding a ton of them to eat.  I ate a feather once.  That didn’t work but when I found a dead baby bird on the ground I tried that.  As you can imagine it still didn’t work.”  Kotori’s gaze moved towards an old log that was half in and out of water where a few more fireflies seemed to be frolicking about, moving in closer with a curious gaze, “I still didn’t grow wings,”obviously but he was throwing out this fun tail after all.  "Fell from a few of those smaller tree’s trying to get birds..” Obviously he couldn’t climb a healthy tree but he’d found one with a large branch half broken off to try and climb up, the other was just a matter of jumping off of the back of Splash to try and scramble up a branch, “so yah, tried a few things before I decided to give up.  It all made perfectly good sense to me back then.”

Kotori quit looking at the log and fireflies to glance back up at the overly bright moon.  “ya know.  It just doesn’t feel, uh, normal.  Don’t ya think?” If Kotori had been alone he would of likely paid a lot more attention to being uneasy but he had Mort and somehow that made things a little safer.

Kotori Fatalis