Ch 5-2 or 6-2 The girl with wings
Girl’s name: Sophie
As Ashim and Nima walk across the snow they see something flying. It flies into the next town.
They arrive in the town. There are people walking around and they see a girl with wings.
She turns around and notices them. At the same time they notice her.
Ashim: Wow! (looking at wings)
Girl: Welcome! You must be travellers?
Yes, we are on a journey.
Girl: Well, I must give you my warmest welcome. I am Sophie, a high ranking member of this village. If you want I can give you housing to stay for the night.
Yes please.
They hang out in the village a bit, and a mother offers them a meal. They chat with the villagers.
Bed time:
Winged girl: Here, you can sleep in my house.
I used to live with my family, but now that I have my wings, I’ve been granted special status.
Nima: I’ve been meaning to ask, how did you get your wings?
Girl: Well, that’s a long story. Maybe I’l tell you tomorrow.
Ashim and Nima both wake up at night and see the girl walking out. They follow her.
She is talking to a rock with strange engravings/a waterfall.
Nima narrator: She was talking to a waterfall that was somehow still flowing despite the temperature.
Girl: Please! You must let me keep my wings! I’ll do anything!
Nothing happens and the girl sags her shoulders.
Girl: I guess it was no use.
Nima and Ashim run back to their room after she heads back home.
When they wake up the next day and go to the kitchen Sophie is sitting and slumped on the kitchen table.
Ashim: What’s wrong?
Sophie: Sigh… It’s a long story. Why don’t we go out and walk?
They are walking up and down the hills beside the village.
Sophie: I didn’t always have these wings.
It was less than a year ago, when I found a magical waterfall. I’d been on the same route before but I’d never seen it before.
You see, before I saw that waterfall, I lived like a servant to my village. It is a tradition, that one person in the village serves the others.
But when I encountered that waterfall, everything changed. It spoke to me. It told me that for one year, it would grant me a gift. The gift of wings.
I immediately grew excited. This could be what I needed to gain acceptance from the town.
And now here I am. The wings had a stronger effect than I thought. I am living a completely new life. They accept me, they let me make friends, and I am no longer a servant. I can do what they want.
Now I help them hunt. I am prized.
They don’t know that my ability will only last for a year.
Nima: So your powers will end soon?
Sophie: That’s right.
I will lose my wings, and be forgotten.
A few km beyond the village, something is taking form. Birds are going berserk when they come into contact with
It’s at an observatory. They are watching the stars. A comet is seen falling towards the earth.
That is when birds start to become reckless. They fly, squawk.
‘Is this the prophesised
Sophie flies off to the direction the comet is going to land.
Ashim: Sophie!
Sophie: I can sense it.
Sophie: At this rate, the ripple from the impact could reach my town!
The birds attack her as they fly in the opposite direction. She doesn’t let them stop her and keeps flying.
She flies higher and higher.
Sophie: If I can stop this, I’ll save my village and be remembered forever! Sophie the Saviour! I’ll never be a servant again!
That being said, I may not make it…
Flashback:
[[Sophie: That person is at the bottom of the ladder. They cannot make friends. They cannot be truly happy. Yet they are also granted the most luxurious life out of anyone in the village. Isn’t it ironic?
But I never wanted those material luxuries. I just wanted to be the same as anyone else. I wanted to laugh with the others, to play with the others, to be accepted as one of them.
When I got my wings, I felt as if I had finally been accepted. I was still not the same, and was not treated the same, but it was the closest I had ever got to being ‘one’ of them.
I wanted it to last forever.]]
She flies up and catches the meteorite. The meteorite hits the ground. Snow flies all over the place.
There is a big flash off light, as the meteorite crashes to the earth.
When they run toward the comet, they see a red stone.
Villager: I think I understand. This appears to be a message from the gods. They are angry and bitter, they resent us.
We think the time is near. The time that the gods exact their revenge on us.
Villager: Oh gods, please understand, that we wish you no harm. And we only want the best for the earth.
Ashim: But that’s not how the gods see us.
While walking, they notice a pair of wings, the same wings that belonged to Sophie. But there is no sign of Sophie.
*Goes back to the waterfall*
Sophie: It’s really gone…
Narrator: Once the waterfall has granted someone a wish it will answer to no one else, and disappear after the wish’s effect has worn off.
*Pans up Sophie*
Sophie: They’re gone.
Sophie: I think they protected me from that meteorite. But it used up all the magic, and my wings fell off a few weeks to early.
*looks up*
I wonder what will happen now?*
Ceremony
Man: Sophie, you have lost your wings and have therefore been reverted back to the role of servant to our village.
Sophie: *puts head in hands* Oh no!
Ashim: But Sophie saved our village!
Man: It does not matter.
Sophie did something heroic, and we are very grateful for that. But that does not change who she is now. She was born a servant, and that is how she is destined to stay.
Ashim: But-!
Damien holds Ashim back and shakes head.
Nima: Wait, what if she comes with us? She can leave the village, right?
Sophie looks at NIma and smiles.
Sophie: I’ll be fine here. But thank you for your concern.
Nima: Sophie…
They are walking now, continuing their journey.
They see someone flying through the sky.
Damien: All I know is that there is a cycle. When one thing ends for one person, something else begins for another. The wings Sophie gained, will probably pass on to person after person, until the magic of our planet is no more.
That is the nature of our planet.
Once the waterfall has granted someone a wish it will answer to no one else, and disappear after the wish’s effect has worn off.
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