!!!! **** WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MATERIALS THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING! SUCH AS BLOOD/GORE AND POSSIBLE DEATHS! READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! **** !!!!
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~ Flashback: Age, 13 ~
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"What are you doing?" Coal asked from below me.
I looked down to see him looking up. His face was scrunched up in an adorable way that still somehow annoyed me. It was the middle of the day, and I was sitting up on a tree branch, looking out at the sky. Something felt... off with me, but I just couldn't place it. So I came out here to think.
"You ever wonder what it would be like to be a Bird Shifter?" I asked my nine-year-old brother.
Coal gave me a bewildered look, like I'd just asked him the mos
