Sky released a bird after caring for it for a while. He shrugged off his jacket, revealing the wings he always tried hard to keep hidden. A breeze blew petals off of the flowers on a tree, and they swirled an danced in the wind, seeming to laugh and chatter before slowly descending to the ground. The bird twittered happily. Danced with the petals, and flew out of sight. Sky sighed and looked to the sun.

"Freedom," he realized, "is a gift.

"It may be the greatest gift that Mother Nature ever gave us. The world was meant to coexist in peace, the cycle of life going on and on. No. The humans had to come along and mess it all up. I need to hide to survive. I can't dance like the sun or laugh like the water, because of humanity.

"Now that I think about it, freedom isn't exactly that.

"It comes at a cost. For the wind, sun, sky, and water to be free, there has to be some living beings to be imprisoned too. It's exchange. It's the cycle of what's to come and what's not to come. I'm stuck here, but at least... at least Inknow someone else isn't."

Part 2 for IRdreamer . :)