It was roughly an hour into her flight and the sky was glowing in the reds and purples of her favorite sunsets. Catching a glimpse of  wing to large for a friendly bird she spun in a wide arch between two large clouds looking for the  body connected to those wings. Shocked to see a shadowed male figure she closed her wings hoping not to be noticed.<br/><br/>Diving as she had many times just playing, she dove down quickly landing in a nearby clearing that she had found a while back. Quickly and quietly she pulled her wings in tight as she tucked herself between two trees and crouched in the shadows of the bushes. A small hiding place she had found in case someone every got lucky to catch a glimpse of her and try to find her.<br/><br/>She had never met someone from the village and wasn't eager to. She had practiced hiding many times and had told her mother that she thought she had it down to a science now. She could be in the clouds one minute and whispering to the bugs in the dirt in roughly ninety- seconds. Not that she every had anyone to time her.<br/><br/>Panic raced through her, every sound she heard sounded like feathers rustling was he close? Her heart was beating loud in her ears. She had never been spotted before, and who was that? A thousand questions raced through her mind. Were there more like her? If so how many, were they as kind as her mother or as cruel as she had made the villagers out to be? Holding her breath she closed her eyes not knowing what else to do. All she knew to do was wait.