I stood below watching the daredevil pursuit overhead. Enthralled, I watched the two tiny creatures race along in an anti-gravity defiance. Their voices shattering the stillness of the morning as they complete artistically choreographed acrobatic stunts. Suddenly their crazy banter changes as the smaller of the two leaps onto a branch unknowing of the thorny spires reaching skyward awaiting the chance to snag a piece of loose flesh. He cries out frightened and panicking as he is impaled by a four inch thorn underneath his arm. My heart bleeds and curses my helplessness with the situation and watch in horror as the larger of the two comes running down the branch to finish the captured foe. To my surprise and relief the larger of the two releases the other then continues the merry chase. What I had thought to be a violent outburst to destroy a usurper of territory, had in fact been a pure expression of joy for the return of the sun.
Don't make assumptions about outcome...lesson learned.
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