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Feb 06, 2013 03:18AM
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(It's not on the ship.Just like we'll pass the forest on our way.Or we'll stay in here for a while.)
Nino sits in a tree whistling to the birds. Eventually one comes and lands on his shoulder and Nino giggles quietly. He takes out a pen and a scrap of paper and starts to practise his eyebrows furrowing in concentration. A a a a a B b b b b C c c c c D d d d d E e e e e F f f f f f G g g g g My
Nino is up the tree again. His legs swing in time to his heartbeat. He walks up and down the branch of the tree arms stretched out wide. He takes a deep breath and bends his legs slowly and then releases soaring into the air before landing on his feet again with cat-like grace. For a second Nino feels as if he is flying, as if he is weightless and free. Like a bird. He wishes he could be a bird. They don't need to be understood because they have the wind ruffling their feathers and the sky an endless expanse all around them, that's all they need. He could fly higher and higher and higher until he touched the edge of space. Until he flew up to the moon and saw the boy with the fishing rod. Until there was no where else to fly in. Then Nino hears some very human sounds from the ground and snaps out of his day dream. He stroked Rat on the top of his small head and started to clamber down, swinging from trunk to trunk like a gymnast on those weird pole things.


