A reality check. Fairy tales and myth, here? Are real. As real as the illness and pain that you just experienced. It is insane. It is bizarre. And every last twist and warp of reality is true.

The wings are our lifeline, here. Lose a feather, well. You've experienced that already. Lose a wing? You are deathly ill until it grows back. Lose both? You die. Plain and simple. The whys of it are arbitrary- there is no physiological reason as to why so much pain or illness is caused by harming them. They simply are.