It was the *BANG!!!!!!!* of thunder outside that made Airyana snap awake with a wide-eyed screech, looking around frantically as her heart raced, feeling like she could easily regurgitate the life-giving organ out of her throat and from her beak, “It… It was only a dream. Thank the gods it was only a dream… Yet… Yet it was terribly vivid, and felt so real… ” She closed her eyes, letting out a bit of a long belch before sighing in relief, “…I knew it was a bad idea to gorge on those tacos at dinner tonight. I’m still burping them up.” Airyana let out a faint whimper, rolling her shoulders as her back was extremely sore in particular, “Fuck… what’s with my—“

*FLAP!!*
“—back…?” The griffoness blinked, rolling her shoulders again, raising an eyebrow as she heard yet another flapping sound from behind her. “What the hell? That sounds like a pair of—“ She thought she was seeing things in the mirror across her bedroom, but it still made her quickly look over her shoulder, “—wings…?” Again, Airyana blinked, “Wings… I really have wings now. That… That explains all the pain I felt in that dream…” She quickly hugged herself, eyes watering up with tears as she purred out a sniffle of joy. She didn’t care how she grew her wings… The only thing that mattered to her was that she now had them, finally being able to spread the great feathered sails she was never gifted with at birth.

Indeed… Airyana’s wish to fly everywhere was granted.


A colab between  stonergriffon and I. I provided the art, and he wrote the story. Click picture for full view.