Bigmamma turned to the direction of their coop- which happened to be the one right beside Sunny`s and Xerxes`s coop. "Come on. We better go to the coop."“No problem! We had better get to sleep now. It’s so dark!"
As Sunny and Xerxes walked off to thier coop, Sunny said in a loud whisper, “I don’t understand. How could any bird be mean to her? She has the sweetest temperament of any bird I’ve known, and a natural mother as well.”
Xerxes shrugged. “I certainly have taken a liking to her. Maybe I could help Singing Heart train her sister, when you’re a forager you still have to be alert like a ground guard.”
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Tiny nodded with a wince. The two sisters set off for the coop. Another night sleeping on the floor. Not the roost, the floor. Most didn`t really hate going to the coop, it was a safe place. Safe from predators, yes, but not from other chickens. Tiny did have a preference between night and day, in the night when the chickens were finding roosts she was always the favorite target, small, helpless, and different, yes, she was the perfect target. In the day she was free, she could run to the forest, to freedom.
But maybe since she had a Trainer now things would be different? But how would that make a difference? It wasn`t like a Trainer could change her eyes. Blood, She thought. my eyes are the color of blood. What kind of chicken has eyes the color of blood?
They stopped in-front of the coop then hopped in through a hole in the wall.
Chickens were finding roosts now. "Hey," Bigmamma whispered. "Follow me. Stay down, maybe they won`t see you." Tiny nodded and Bigmamma led her to a corner of the coop no chickens really ever went to. "We can sleep here tonight. Tomorrow I have another idea." Tiny nodded to her sister and settled down to sleep. Her sister put a wing around her. Tiny quickly drifted off to sleep.