Parrot Hilton - a background
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writing_shadowsYou know, it was almost a relief when I found out that she'd gone.
Oh, don't look at me like that. I know it's not exactly the stereotypical fae response. We're meant to be terribly keen on stealing people from that little grey world of theirs, and then apparently we should go to vast lengths to keep them here.
I've never been quite so convinced.
I mean, if they really want to go back to their world of rain and concrete, give up their beautiful forms and magical powers, and live a tedious and mundane life until they die, then I think we should let them. Who wants someone that's that keen on banality? Not me.
And in this particular case, I think there's definitely something to be said for this individual in particular living an exceedingly quiet life, and dying as soon as is humanly possible.
Somehow, thought, I doubt she will.
Look, it was the noise which got to me after a while. I've never known anything squawk quite as loudly and quite incessantly. And it wasn't as if I could teach her to say anything more than "my shoes! My shoes!". I'd have had more success with an actual parrot, instead of a supposedly intelligent talking parrot.
OK, she was very pretty, but that's not really enough after a while. You can't normally see much through the migraine, and frankly, I was tired of having my fingers pecked at relentlessly. We won't even talk about the damage she did to the cage I put her in. It took me time and energy to make that cage!
In fact, when I came into that room to find the cage bars gnawed through, and my pet parrot gone (and how on earth does a parrot gnaw through the bars of a cage? Should they even be able to do that?) I felt a rush of relief.
No, I'm not going to go out hunting her. There is no force in Arcadia that would get me anywhere near that parrot. If anything, I'm rather scared she'll try and come back. Is it possible to bar someone from Arcadia?
No, she can go back to her world now.
And may Fate have mercy on them all...
Oh, don't look at me like that. I know it's not exactly the stereotypical fae response. We're meant to be terribly keen on stealing people from that little grey world of theirs, and then apparently we should go to vast lengths to keep them here.
I've never been quite so convinced.
I mean, if they really want to go back to their world of rain and concrete, give up their beautiful forms and magical powers, and live a tedious and mundane life until they die, then I think we should let them. Who wants someone that's that keen on banality? Not me.
And in this particular case, I think there's definitely something to be said for this individual in particular living an exceedingly quiet life, and dying as soon as is humanly possible.
Somehow, thought, I doubt she will.
Look, it was the noise which got to me after a while. I've never known anything squawk quite as loudly and quite incessantly. And it wasn't as if I could teach her to say anything more than "my shoes! My shoes!". I'd have had more success with an actual parrot, instead of a supposedly intelligent talking parrot.
OK, she was very pretty, but that's not really enough after a while. You can't normally see much through the migraine, and frankly, I was tired of having my fingers pecked at relentlessly. We won't even talk about the damage she did to the cage I put her in. It took me time and energy to make that cage!
In fact, when I came into that room to find the cage bars gnawed through, and my pet parrot gone (and how on earth does a parrot gnaw through the bars of a cage? Should they even be able to do that?) I felt a rush of relief.
No, I'm not going to go out hunting her. There is no force in Arcadia that would get me anywhere near that parrot. If anything, I'm rather scared she'll try and come back. Is it possible to bar someone from Arcadia?
No, she can go back to her world now.
And may Fate have mercy on them all...
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Date: 2008-03-11 09:55 am (UTC)