A Speech to { Â N O B O D Y }
âThe moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.â
                                                   â J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
{ x } recommended listening
âYou donât understand! Iâve been trying to tell you for years, we deserve more than this!â
Pi-chan curls her hands into fists glaring at the ground
âI love Solitude as much as you do- itâs my home, you know this! But I canât just sit around and watch everybody get fucked over by those stupid mammals! Do you think we deserve this? We never did anything to them! Maybe- maybe it was for revenge at first, I donât fucking know, but theyâre just disgusting now. Nobody deserves this, not Auntie, not Master, and sure as hell not me.
â....I was out once, you know. The real world. There are so many birds, you know? And the sky....itâs so big. There are giant human machines that can fly like birds, and- and thousands of acres of world for us to explore! But....but there are trapped birds, too....ones whose wings are clipped, and one who are kept in cages. And every time I saw one, I thought....thatâs us, isnât it? Weâre fed, weâre given a home, weâre kept happy.....but we canât do what we want. Every time we want to do something, we have to get the goatsâ approval. Every time I leave, or come  back, itâs because of the goats. Free will....itâs a human thing, isnât it? And once you have it....itâs addicting. Having it stolen from you is like living without air. I just wish you could understand.
âA-And-! Thatâs why I want you to fly for yourselves! Stop looking up to them as an ultimate authority! They canât control you if you donât let them, damnit! We were born as birds, but that doesnât give them the right to clip our wings! I just....I want whatâs best for you, and if that means stopping your worship of these false gods who demand that we give them tribute for destroying the ones who gave us our home before, then jesus, Iâm going to do it!â
She finishes here speech, breath running ragged from the emotion in her voice. Still, Tim and Tam do nothing but blink back at her from their spot on a nearby tree branch and tilt their heads in unison. She should have expected as much; the twins are the smartest birds in the flock by far, but even they have their limits. They are, after all, just doves.
âUgh.....stupid birds. Why do I even bother.....â