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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CCC-REDHORSE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 134.64.202.69 *** CCC-REDHORSE has joined 134.64.202.69 <CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba! <CCC-REDHORSE>I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away.

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It's placement and feathers.

[But fine, he will accept that you no longer have them.]

Would you get wings again?

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[Shun thinks that the problems are mostly the same, feathers or not, but fine.]

No

[Sometimes... just sometimes he feels phantom ache at his back, longs for that split-second of free fall before he carries himself of his own strength, the feeling of soaring in the sky… but it's not enough to make him consider even in the slightest. His size is already problematic enough, he doesn't need to add wings to that.]

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Why?

[He probably should have seen that question coming.]

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[He really should have.]

Because the drawbacks outweigh the benefits

[It's all about pragmatism.]

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Oh

[WAIT BUT DOES THAT MEAN-]

I made a mistake didn't I

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[...]

Why did you wish for wings?

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I was a faerie for a few weeks

Flying was fun, and I could move fast that way

I got feather ones instead since the bird I saw flew through trees better

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Are you having fun with your new wings?

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Yeah

I can catch more birds now, not just chickens. [Somewhere east of bavan, a farmer still curses this kid's fleeing tail-]

I picked the right feathers too, so I don't crash through bushes.

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Then it wasn't a mistake.

[Reira has no business thinking in Shun's terms of pragmatism.]

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Because they're the right wings?

[Too Late]

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Because they serve the purpose you got them for.

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Wouldn't the reason be wrong if I made a mistake though?

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Why do you think that you made a mistake?

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You said 'the drawbacks outweigh the benefits'.

If you have more drawbacks, why wouldn't I have them?

[Because you're dead, cold immune, and small, kid. Altitude and cramped spaces aren't a problem there.]

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Because you aren't me

[Obviously.]

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But how does that change it?

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You don't have to watch out that you don't hit the ceiling when you stand straight in a room

[Shun doesn't even want to know what kind of wing span he'd need to lift off. Of course, there are more reasons than that, but this is the one that won't end in them arguing again about how Reira isn't suited for the Battlefield. After the last week, Shun doesn't have the patience for that one right now.]

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Oh

[Shun IS pretty tall...

...But.] Why didn't you just say that though?

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[…child.]

it's true either way

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[............Yes. Yes it is.]

Okay.

[That's about all he can say to that now though!]