I felt gravity push its force down onto me. My hair flew up in rapid ways, all in different motions, but in tangled clumps. They all looked the same, though. Blonde which faded to black to the ends.

My knees hugged closed to my chest, with my arms wrapped tightly around them. The wind roared in my ears and flew up faster than a peregrine, a cheetah. What did they say it was called? Falling. It was something to get used to. You don't know what will happen, and if you'll fall into darkness' hands. Soon though, you can see all around you, and find it very calming.

I was falling upright, looking at the scenery rising past and I fell to the opposite. I spread out my arms and legs like a starfish. My body turned and was now falling as if laying down. I looked up at the deep blue ocean up there, with white puffs flying by. The was a light blue ocean above, and a deep dark, mysterious one below. What was beyond the middle points? 

Now.

I felt my whole body shrink. My vision became sharper, and my senses were much more clear. My body turned as my feathers flapped against and with the wind. My stomach had touched the cold water, but left immediately. My wings flapped higher and higher, carrying myself farther and farther away from the sea. 

I'm not sure what I am, honestly. My friends said I was able to change from a monstrous giant to a young bird. From a human to a bird. I wonder, were there more of 'human'? How strange. Soon I was flying over and past the land I lived on. It was small up here, but when you touched it, it looks and feels like home. A huge welcoming island. And it seemed to be the only island. We couldn't go anywhere else, could we?

My friends had called me, Eillava. Some said it was strange, and some said it was unique. I was born between the angry mountain and the soft sea.  Don't ask me what that means, because even I don't know.

Her friends wouldn't tell Eillava.