Clipped Wings

I just wanted to get out of this cruel, sad world. I wanted to be free from his countless name-calling. I just wanted to crawl into a ditch and die, which is what he actually told me to do.

That day was the worst. That is when it pushed me over the limit.

That day was sunny, like every other day. When we had free time, Rainbow Dash was doing a race, and Fluttershy was helping by holding the start flag. Both of them got their cutie marks.

I was sitting by myself that day, until Thunderlane came up to me. He teased me a bit more, until he said “Why don’t you just crawl into a ditch and die? You aren’t needed here.”

That is when he pushed me over the limit. I was done, done with Equestria.

I got up from where I was sitting to go lie down on a separate cloud and sob. The bad thing is that Thunderlane followed me over to the cloud. He started to pluck out my feathers on my wings.

One by one, each of my feathers were plucked out. I didn’t care though. It was better than his taunting and teasing. Every feather had blood on it, I still didn’t care. Yes, it hurt but nothing bothered me. When Thunderlane left, I barely had any feathers. I just lay there, in the hot summer heat. Nopony saw me there.

I was on the cloud for a few hours, from noon until dinner, when they couldn’t find me when they did role call for dinner. They sent a search group to go through the whole camp. When they found me, I was out cold.