We were the witnesses not of a few handsful of casual flightlings, but of the general exodus of the inhabitants of a whole territory.
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We were the witnesses not of a few handsful of casual flightlings, but of the general exodus of the inhabitants of a whole territory.
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Refugees, flightlings, black things, whose dissident passage through understanding is often taken for a kind of lawless freedom.
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Her mother, the flightling, fighting her way across an inky sea, washing up on a foreign shore with empty pockets, building a new life in a strange land, with nothing to pass on to her daughter from her home but the sounds of her mother tongue.
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In that country style place with an abundant garden the lady of the house would put special toast slices, a nutty high-grain variety dried to an ideal texture for birds, out for the collection of flightlings that attended the daily garden feast.
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