You are woken the next morning by the sound of something large moving nearby. Some rustling and bumping noises. But it's pitch black.
It takes you a moment to remember that you'd awoken yesterday as a normal sized raven in your freind's bedroom and fallen asleep in your new birdcage.
-Come on Max, let me out already!- you try to say, but all you hear is squarking.
Confused for a moment you try again "SQUARK, SQUARK"
'I can't talk anymore!' you panic to yourself, just as light pierces your eyes as Max removes the cloth rom over your cage.
"Yeah, yeah, I heard you..." Max wearily exclaimed as he folded the cloth and placed in on the floor behind the cage.
He looks at you for a moment before walking to a nearby cupboard and removing a plastic container.
Carrying it across to you he opens it before scooping out a small handful of mealworms and dropping them into your cage.
'FOOD' your mind shouts as you dart to the bottom of the cage and start pecking at the dried treats.
It takes you a moment to realise that your raven instincts overrode your mind for a time there, making you act like a real bird.
After you've pondered this for a while you look up to try and communicate with Max again, but he's no longer in the room.
You consider his behaviour towards you so far this morning and start to wonder if he has forgotten you were ever anything other than his pet raven. You were scare yesterday that this day was rapidly approaching, but you never thought it would be here so soon! You think of your parents. Do they remember you? Have you ever been anything but Max's pet in anyone's minds?
You've no notion of how long you were lost in these thoughts before you heard Max re-enter the room.
He paid you no attention as he got dressed into his school uniform.
A short while later, after packing his bag, styling his hair and a few other things you weren't that interested in watching, Max approaches your cage.
"You're lucky - no school, no responsibilities, just sleep, eat and fly when I let you outside. Sometimes I really envy your simple life as a bird!"
You're plunged into darkness again as he drapes the cloth back over your cage as he leaves for school.
In the darkness you start to feel weary again and soon find yourself drifting back to sleep.