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secondaries came out, and I began to feel the muscles there, and to be able to shudder my wings, shake them, raise them a little— and I wasn't feverish any more, or I'd got used to running a fever all the time, I'm not really sure which it is—and I was able to get up and walk around, and feel how light my body was now, as if gravity couldn't affect me, even with the weight of those huge wings dragging after me... but I could lift them, get them up off the floor...
Not myself, though. I was earthbound. My body felt light, but I wore out even trying to walk, got weak and shaky. I used to be pretty good at the broad jump, but now I couldn't get both feet off the ground at once.
I was feeling a lot better, but it bothered me to be so weak, and I felt closed in. Trapped. Then a flier came by, a man from uptown, who'd heard about me. Fliers look after kids going through the change. He'd looked in a couple of times