a trade

[asakiyume]

This question popped into my head when I looked out my window and saw a catbird balancing on a stick, using its wings to help it balance.

Would you trade your arms and hands for wings?

Comments

[sovay]

Experience wings for a while, then go back.

Exactly! Or a sort of selkie arrangement, in which the wings can be shrugged on or off at need.

[heleninwales]

Ah, yes. Like a swan maiden. That would be interesting.

[asakiyume]

Temporariness is key. (I like that you choose swan maidens as your referent.)

[(Anonymous)]

I thought of them because Juliet McKenna has swan maidens, or rather swan women, in her Green Man series. Also there are swan men, from what is possibly an Irish myth. They can change back and forth at will which would be an amazing talent to have.

[asakiyume]

It would be! And swan men seem well possible to me--I'm used to them from the story of the princess with the brothers who are enchanted to be swans.

[heleninwales]

Just to say, the reply that was posted as Anonymous was me. I'd forgotten I wasn't logged in on that browser since I changed my password.

[asakiyume]

No worries! (Also, I left a reply to that comment)