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Translated by Akin Phoenix
One cold winter day, when the snow and ice had freshly hit the ground, I was out at my favorite eating spot with all my friends. In the middle of this nice field there is a tube full of small sunflower seeds. They aren’t my preferred food, but they are mighty tasty when you’re short on bugs in the middle of winter. I grabbed a beak full of seeds and flew over to one of my favorite trees. Then I had this bright idea! I would take a short cut to another tree through a route I had never taken before. Wheee….I go flying off and BAM!
I must have hit some kind of force field, or something. There I was knocked out the cold icy ground, with blood dripping from my beak. I lost a lot of blood. You can see it in the snow.
I was wondering what the heck just happened, and why I couldn’t fly away. I was drifting off to sleep, when out of nowhere a giant scooped me up in a box, and moved me into this really warm and cozy place. I wasn’t feeling well at all, so I didn’t protest much. The giant was talking to me, and I just stayed still. I really wasn’t feeling well, and wasn’t in a talking mood. Oddly enough, the giant had a scent that I have smelled on the food I get from the tube. I was hoping that was a good sign, as a fell off to sleep again.
When I woke up again, the giant was placing all these funny looking items around me. I don’t know what they were, but they had a strange energy emanating from them, that felt really good. The giant had what my Mommy described as fire, and a noisy thing that rattled with the picture of what my Mommy called a snake! Oh my gosh…I didn’t know what to do, but that familiar scent assured me all was well, besides, it was nice and warm in this place. I tried to get some sleep, but that giant kept making noise. It blew into this big tree branch that made a sound like a bird, and it was mumbling giant talk, and shaking that snake thing. Couldn’t it see a birdy was tired? I left my body a couple of times, and felt a lot better, but the giant could see me, and spoke directly to mind, telling me to get back down here. How did he do that? He isn’t a bird! Then it pulled me back into my body.
After it was finished making all that noise, and making me do stuff I didn’t want to do, it went and fetched me some water, and left. All of a sudden I was feeling much better. I perched up on the little water bowl, and for the first time since being in the warm place, I lifted my beak and took a look around.
The giant came back and started talking giant talk again, and flicked the piece of food off my beak that was glued on with blood. I was nice and warm at this point, and feeling a lot better! I was starting to wonder how I was going to make my escape, when the giant was in my mind again! It asked if I was ready to go, and I replied with a big “YES”! It started removing all the good feeling items that it put in the box with me. I kind of wanted to keep some of those, but it said it needed them for others that flew into force fields in life, and needed a helping hand.
The giant lifted the whole box that I was in, and took me back to where the light was. I dared not fly at that moment. I didn’t want to hit another force field. It was a good thing too. The giant opened another force field, and I felt the familiar cold of the season hit my feathers. It lifted the box in the air, and I hopped up on the edge. I looked back at the giant, and he was in my mind again, telling me to farewell! I flew into the air, on my way to Grandfather tree, and all my friends to tell them about what just happened to me. Grandfather tree said I would have died, had it not been for the shaman. I asked the Grandfather what color was I going to be dyed (I like my yellow feathers) and is a saw man what they call the giant, but he smiled and told me to go get more food, before it was all gone.
