Chapter 02: "The Great Bird"

A young girl who was about to die of fear before sleeping, opened her eyes to find herself in a pleasant, warm, and comfortable place. She had finally awakened and saw the bluish bird staring at her with blue eyes that shimmered, matching its overall blue glow.

Its entire body pulsated in rhythm with its calm breaths, its bluish glow pulsing like a calm heart, and its breaths sounding like those of someone tired and exhausted, resting.

The bird opened its eyes and observed with curiosity the small human creature before it. Its eyes did not reflect any aggressiveness, only calmness, as if the bird could speak with its eyes, conveying nothing more than "it's okay, little one."

There was also a bit of "be well, I will protect you, you don't need to be afraid." The winged creature admired the little being in front of it. The girl tried to walk but couldn't; she had many wounds and pains in her body, but she no longer felt any pain or injury, just a strong weakness throughout her body. Her body was healed but still recovering from the wounds that had almost cost her life.

She remembered that when the bird touched her and glowed, she felt sleepy and fell asleep. She approached it and said, "What's your name, big one? My name is Kiay from the Dwiam tribe!" The girl approached again and said, "What's your name? Mine is Kiay! Hi?" The bird didn't understand, but it watched the girl speak and became even more curious about the small being in front of it, trying to communicate with her.

"You don't have a name?" The girl hugged the bird around its neck with great happiness.

The winged creature let out a small cry, imitating the girl, who didn't understand. Then the creature nodded, opened its wing, and began to flap its immense wings, preparing to fly away.

Kiay: "HEY, WAIT, DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!" the girl shouted, trying to reach the bird, but she couldn't; it was large and faster than the small Kiay.

Then the bird shouted again and flew away through a large hole ahead. Once again, the girl stopped and sat down, crying, thinking that she had been abandoned by her new ally or that she had done something it didn't like, causing it to leave her.

"Don't leave me! I'll need you to return home, to my mother, to my family..." She approached and looked through the large natural terrace near the nest. She saw a vast forest with purple and black leaves that extended far beyond what she could see. She tried to calm down and then returned to the nest.

Where she felt safe, even though she was afraid that some large, wild animal might appear. She decided to stop shouting and crying so as not to attract any more dangerous animals again.

Then she noticed beneath the feathers that there was an egg there; this egg had been broken. She understood that the bird was sad when it found her because it had lost its chick, possibly to one of those dogs. It made sense why she attacked it with so much anger, thought the girl.

Once again, the little child slept. Hours later, she heard a loud noise and heard the blue bird arriving, bringing a large fruit that looked like a giant apple in its right claw and a piece of meat that looked like a giant chicken drumstick in its left claw.

It placed them in front of its young guest, as if it wanted the girl to eat something, just like a mother would do for her children.

The girl approached slowly to the mother bird and hugged one of its wings. "Thank you for not abandoning me and for bringing food..." The bird just approached and gently touched its beak to the girl's head.

As if to say "It's okay, I'm back... Little one." The bird had a small wound on its right wing that was bleeding slightly.

The girl approached and saw the wound, which seemed painful. She then picked some feathers with weeds and made a large bandage, placing it over the wound and tying it. She rinsed it with water and tried to clean the wound. She picked some moss, crushed it with a stone, and applied it along with some spit-covered leaves to the wounds, just like she had seen her mother do.

Despite being a young child, the girl had a lot of courage and determination in her brave little heart. Her companion saw this value, which seemed unique and admirable; she knew that even though she didn't understand, she was being cared for by the little one. So after eating the meat, the girl fell asleep.

At dawn, the girl always approached the hole that looked more like a window than anything else.

The view was majestic: a forest with purple and black leaves, a river, rocks, and a steep mountain in its midst with many others around it, and a large blue tree with many large fruits resembling apples or giant pears, as well as an endless number of other giant trees and large animals, from snakes, wolves, bears, to frogs, that lived there.

She kept looking at that incredible view all day until the eternal sunset in her short appearance. The bird always approached the fragile girl, who couldn't stop admiring that beautiful view, wishing her mother, father, and even her unbearable brother could see this beautiful landscape.

The winged creature always sought to understand what she was thinking. When she then looked in the same direction as her and felt a lightness comforting her, placing its wing over the small girl, whom it now protected.

In her curiosity, the child always looked at the cave, trying to understand everything, but it didn't matter; she had no one to teach her the names of things, so she decided to name everything she saw.

"I know, your name will be Winged! Because you are a beautiful bird of light." She spoke and pointed to the Great Bird with a new name: "Winged."

Who just looked at little Kiay without understanding what she was saying but understood what she meant. Her new name meant many other things to her.

END OF CHAPTER 02

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