He hated that look on the human’s face, the one that said he thought Bowman was trained. Every time Bowman acted like he was “supposed to”, that smirk appeared. Bowman wanted to kick the giant right in the face for it.
“Good,” the human said, glancing back to his healer show. “You can show off your wings as much as you want, so don’t worry about that.”
“Your generosity is astounding,” Bowman muttered in response.
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Bowman Lost Excerpt
The human lounged on the couch, looming nearby, while Bowman’s plastic cage sat on the next cushion over. They were watching a show about human healers, so the human said. They wore a lot of white and had a lot of lover’s quarrels, from Bowman’s experience. Not a lot of healing happened.
Bowman Lost Excerpt
He learned a lot, when the giant deigned to actually answer him. He learned what plastic was, how TVs and cars worked, and what it meant to have a “job.” Bowman had left his entire world behind and traded it in for one completely alien to him.
He never even had a chance to really stretch his wings.
The human took him out of the plastic cage once or twice to add containers of food and water. More often than not, one or both wings were squished into a fist. It didn’t matter how much he squirmed and fidgeted, he was always wrapped in a hand so he couldn’t fly around the enormous human dwelling.
Bowman Lost Excerpt
Something rattled just outside the dark prison, and then a bar of light shone in and rapidly expanded. Bowman threw his hands over his eyes as late afternoon light flooded all around him. Despite loving the sunlight and the life it provided him, it hurt after so much total darkness.
“Get any rest, little guy?” the human chuckled. Bowman wasn’t prepared for the tupperware to suddenly lift upwards, and he had to take his hands from his face to brace against the floor. He left the trunk behind, and then the giant slammed it shut once more.
The tupperware was once again carried in the crook of the giant’s arm. Bowman scrambled to his feet and leaned against the wall to squint through it. Past the hazy barrier, past the thick arm, the world was completely new. Bowman was fascinated, but more than that he was scared.
Bowman Lost Excerpt
Stale bread from some strange giant creature wasn’t his first choice, either. Bowman frowned, but told himself he truly didn’t know when the next chance at something edible might come along. He needed his strength to deal with his situation.
He lifted the piece of bread to his lips, feeling the coarse texture before parting them. His eyes shut tight despite the darkness and he took a modest bite.
It wasn’t terrible. There was something odd about it, a lack of grit despite being bread, but it passed.
Bowman Lost Excerpt
They were on the move. Bowman drew in a shaky breath, and then another, and felt the motion around him. Everything leaned back and forth as the car turned this way and that. He couldn’t tell which direction things went, and couldn’t even figure out how fast the thing could go. Bowman was no stranger to speed, as the fastest wood sprite in Wellwood.
I guess I’m not the fastest in Wellwood anymore, he thought bitterly. Someone else will be once they realize I’m not coming back.
Bowman Lost Excerpt
Wherever he was, he wasn’t in the forest. The forest was behind him now. Bowman’s heart pounded and a new wave of fear and despair surged through him. “It’s not too late to let me out,” he said. “Please, giant. Let me out of here.”
The giant snorted. “ ‘Giant?’ I’m not the big one here, little guy. I’m just a human. Not even that tall a’ one. You’re the one who’s Tinkerbell-sized.”
Bowman shook his head. “I don’t know what that is. You keep throwing out weird words and not listening to me! ”
“I’m listening,” the giant ‘human’ replied. “And I’m telling you that you should chill.”
Bowman Lost Excerpt
“Birdie,” he mumbled to himself, tears welling up in his eyes. “I’ll try to come home, Birdie.”
That did him in at last. His breath hitched and then the tears escaped. Bowman had spent the morning fighting and struggling and yelling for his release, for his freedom. No matter how much the giant had ignored him, he had kept right on fighting his captivity no matter how futile it was. Now, his weak promise to Rischa settled the fact in his heart.
He wasn’t going home. Home, with each giant stride, was farther and farther away from him.
Bowman Lost Excerpt
The others would all assume that he’d happened upon a predator on his patrols. An ambitious hawk could have snared him in its talons. A possum or a raccoon, awake at odd hours, could have caught him in powerful claws to make a meal of him. He could have gotten hurt and fallen somewhere for a snake to happen upon him. Anything at all could have befallen him out in the woods to leave no evidence of Bowman Leafwing, and it’d make no difference to them.
Bowman Lost Excerpt
The others would all assume that he’d happened upon a predator on his patrols. An ambitious hawk could have snared him in its talons. A possum or a raccoon, awake at odd hours, could have caught him in powerful claws to make a meal of him. He could have gotten hurt and fallen somewhere for a snake to happen upon him. Anything at all could have befallen him out in the woods to leave no evidence of Bowman Leafwing, and it’d make no difference to them.
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