Shadewood let not light see my black and deep desires

fly west with my good wishes

his beak parted but he did not speak. shocked. it wasn't supposed to go this way.

"no- hereby, i meant we're done. you did your, your experiment and now we- we go home." his head poked out the hollow and his neck craned, but still he couldn't quite see the pallid plumage of his sibling. 

"you're done here, you go with me." even though he knew, felt it clawing at his heart, that the opposite was true.