Capítulo 31: .
Terra was often lonely. Her father was never home, and she had never even heard of her mother. She was left all alone in a large cottage, which she had tried to fill the brim with little odds and ends that glittered in the moonlight. It was cozy, but somehow there was always an air of emptiness, which is why Terra would usually be found talking to the many animals that also inhibited the small cottage with her - sparrows, pigeons, owls, and hawks on the roof, mice, and ants in the kitchen, the occasional cat, dog, wolf, or bear that happened to pass by.
Anything to escape the loneliness.
She liked to sleep as well - a brief way to escape the cold silence that always seemed to be hovering in the cottage. She'd have dreams where she was embraced by people whose faces were blurred. Her family, or at least what she imagined they would be like.
With a groan, she opened her eyes to a familiar cold silence. She had fallen asleep to the crackle of the fireplace, but now there was only a dim pile of ash left in the fireplace. There were no tick-tocks of clocks, no groans of floorboard with footsteps, only a sheer, firm silence that seemed to be clawing at her throat.
Terra sighed in relief as the silence was broken with a shrill screech of what seemed to be a sparrow. Then her eyes shot open again, and she threw off her blankets, stumbling away from the brick hearth and shaking the sleep out of her legs. She opened the latch to the window, and almost instantly a sparrow sped past her, into the house, landing on the floor with a thud. The bird then flopped around, like a fish on land, as if it was trying to shake something off. Terra watched, frozen, as the bird let out another screech and then grew silent, its wings stilling.
Then, it moved its neck up to look at her in a distinctly humanoid way - one Terra had never seen before on a sparrow - and studied her with beady eyes black as the night. Even from across the room, Terra could see that they were shining like opals. It was as if something was controlling the bird.
Then Terra shook off her thoughts and held out a finger.
"What's wrong?"
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