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Layla let out a sharp screech as she landed beak first on the cold metal catwalk. Looking up from her embarrassing position, she saw her brother glaring down at her trying hold back a laugh.
“You missed me again!” said Kaar. He couldn’t restrain himself any longer and spread his colorful wings as wide as they could go. The shrill cackling sound that followed echoed throughout the large corridor the catwalk was suspended in and annoyed Layla to no end.
“Are you done yet?” she asked. Layla was back on her feet now and a single talon was tapping on the catwalk, a sure sign that her patience was running thin. She couldn’t help it, He drove her nuts. But family is family.
As she recalled, this was how most of their play fights ended. Kaar was …show more content…

First one back gets seconds!” And with that, Kaar scurried down the catwalk towards the front of their home, spreading his wings, jumping, and finally flying low and fast. He would beat her there, he always did.
Layla scampered at a hurried pace after her brother, thinking about the world, like always.
Later that night as the lights all across their home dimmed, signifying night, Layla and Kaar hopped up onto their roosts to get some rest. They roosted next to each other, as they had done as far back as Layla could remember, and supposedly since they were even hatchlings.
It’s always the same thing. Every day. Wake up, eat, study, play, eat, sleep.
It had not even been five minutes and Kaar was already asleep at this point. His beak was wide open and his wings were slacked. Layla quickly pecked him in the side to get his attention. The resulting jolt, accompanied by a shrill squawk, rocked the roost violently and Layla nearly fell off from the shaking of the support below her.
“What do you want!? I was sleeping.”
“I had no idea” she gave him a sarcastic thousand-yard-stare. Doofus. ”I want to talk.”
“Can’t it wait till the morning?” His wings were already starting to relax at his sides again.
“Please? It’s been bugging me for a while.”
“Alright” He blinked a few times, and sat up straight, trying to stay awake. “What is it?”
“Don’t you think our home is a little weird?”
“What do you mean? It seems alright to me, I mean, we grow nuts and berries on

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