The Apprentices by Meloy Maile

Author:Meloy, Maile [Meloy, Maile]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101599228
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

He rolled up the note and put it in his father’s bag. He made sure the window was open. Then he opened the bottle and drank the rest of the avian elixir.

It had the familiar, bitter, mossy taste. His skin began to tingle all over as if both arms and both legs had fallen asleep. His body tilted forward at the hips, and he felt his legs begin to shrink and lighten beneath him. Feathers burst from his prickling skin and his skull lightened. His nose and mouth drew themselves into a hard, pointed beak. His hands disappeared into feathered wing tips, and his toes into tiny talons.

He wasn’t sweating in the heat anymore. His eyesight improved so much, it was as if he were looking through a telescope at the buildings across the city, and his hearing grew sharper. His human sense of regret at leaving his father seemed to lessen. He was a skylark, and wanted nothing more than to fly.

He hopped up on the windowsill, scanned the sky for danger, felt the air currents moving past him, and soared out into the blue day.

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