Lights, one by one, flicked on. Bright and blinding they focused on the one object in the middle of the circle made in the dirt. Black was the mysterious figure. Unmoving. All lights came on. Focused on that one object. Slowly, the black began the shift. It seemed to get taller and more narrow. Then from the center of the black, was a small girl. Her hair black as night. Her eyes cold and dark, blank. All chattering fell silent. Not a movement from the seats. Large wings, emanated from her back. They unwrapped themselves from around her pale figure and stretched out wide. Longer then anything seen before. People gawked at the freakish girl. They pointed and whispered. She lifted herself off the ground and began swaying back and forth. She cawed like a bird in the morning. It rang through the whole building. People laughed quietly and made cruel jokes, some hissed and whispered cruelty. Sick people gave money to see things of abnormal state. This made her sick. After the girl finished her act of a bird the lights went off and that ended the show. The girl stepped behind dark doors and the wings retracted. A short, fat man grabbed her arm and praised her as he led her into a back room. He tossed her in a small cramped cage that smelled wretched. She hissed as he hit the bars, laughing. "We made a good income, Miu. Good job again today... Freak." He chuckled and walked into the dark. Miu curled up into a small bawl in the cage and removed herself from the cruelty of the world. As always. All thought and feeling left her. A form of meditation she had learned to keep her sanity in this despicaable place. Her eyes shut and she lost herself in her own mind.