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The call of the wind has been strong, recently.
Stronger than it has been in months. It glides and it soars and it dives, playful, beckoning me forward, asking me to join it.
Sometimes as a little whisper, barely there at all in the back of my mind. Others like a thundering roar, drowning out every other sound around me. Pushing and pulling and shoving at me, begging me to go, to get lost in the clouds and become one with it once again. To pick up my cape and soar through the skies as it lifts me up, up, up until I reach orbit and back down to earth.
It sings of the warmth of a candle, of a hand holding mine through the dark of the night, through the chill of the rain, through the worst of the storm. It cries for things not yet experienced, for memories not yet made. It rages for the what ifs, for the things that could have been, had I not left its wing.
I never meant to leave, not really. Everyone knows life has twists of its own. Violent turns that knock the air from your lungs and cliffs that have you tumbling to the very bottom. Sometimes there isn't space, there isn't time to go frolicking in the prairie, to chat while listening to music performed by friends or to doze off to the pitter-patter of the rain against the leaves in the forest.
And so you don't.
You stop.
But I don't want to stop.
I don't want to stay away from this world forever. I don't want to leave behind the friendships I've made.
I shouldn't have to.
I should get to feel the warmth of the candles, of a hand in my own leading the way. I should get to race through fields and slide down mountains, to listen to the rain and brave the storms that come after.
I should get to dive down into the waters of the unknown, of the inexperienced.
The wind whirls around me as I make up my mind, a joyful gust pushing me forwards and away from second-thoughts.
The mask and cape fit on me like puzzle pieces finally completing a long-forgotten picture, at last filling up the void they created when they were removed.
As the gusts of air propel me forwards and show me to a path forever engraved into my memory, a single thought runs through my mind:
I'm going home.
Sky: Children of the Light
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