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The freedom of flight is all well and good, and it makes sense to focus on that when you've been living as an earth-bound little ape for too long. The ability to go anywhere your wings can take you isn't even exclusive to winged-kind, since humans love putting themselves in baskets and planes and whatever to try.

What I really miss, that your average human probably will not relate to, is being able to move my wings. That's what it comes down to. The fresh air and height is great, but a dragon without flight is like a whale kept in a tank, chickens in battery cages. Natural behaviors are stunted. The mind deteriorates. If I had feathers I'd be plucking them like a traumatized parrot.

Have you ever gone too long without exercise, and taking a walk made your muscles tingle and warm with relief? That's what I want, but those muscles don't even exist in my body in a way they can be used. I'm gonna die on this planet without having the chance to flap my wings like I deserve to. If I'm lucky, I'll get another chance at it on a next go around. But there's the possibility I never will, and the closest I'm ever gonna get is the agony of a muscle I can't stretch.

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Sunrise in Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park - Italyby Roberto Melotti

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by Katarzyna Gritzmann

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[ Snowy Owl Kinboard with Stars for Anon ] 

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Галина Егоренкова (@galinaegorenkova)

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Snowstorm Owl by © Mircea Costina Photography

Great Grey Owl or Lapland Owl (Strix nebulosa) in Snowstorm

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Seth Nijord | @sethnjord