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[[>]] [[module Rate]] [[/>]] A baby Jay was brought up By a Magpie and a Rook Their family was happy If a glance was all you took But Father Rook was changed By all the strange things he had learned And so one day he left the nest; He never once returned The Jay and Magpie, now alone, Together, did their best But if she wished to fly The Jay would have to leave the nest. She’d gained her father’s knowledge And had soon picked up a trail The Magpie begged her chick to stay But all to no avail For Jay had learned a Blackbird Queen Lived hidden in the woods She traded knowledge freely To surrounding neighborhoods It seemed she might know Father Rook Or even where he was She might even forego the “why” If she knew the “because” The Jay began her journey Down a dark and dangerous path Through snow and rain and hail she flew And in the aftermath She found that she had gotten To a forest known by few The nest was in a grove Near where the Tree of Knowledge grew She timidly approached it But the only other bird Was a Raven. Could she be the Queen? That wasn’t what she’d heard. The Raven spoke, “I sense you’ve come For knowledge from the Tree” Jay nodded. “Then it seems that I’m The one you’ve come to see.” The Jay was clearly startled But she bowed before the Queen And soon began her story Of the things that she had seen And finally the reason She’d approached the Queen that day The Queen thought for a while And then nodded at the Jay “The Rook lives in a castle Just a cliff or two away Your journey here took long But this one only takes a day” The Jay was grateful for her help But still she was confused She asked why she received it And the Blackbird looked bemused “Your father left you young, Your mother raised you all alone Your life has not been easy; It reminds me of my own.” The Queen gave one last warning To the Jay before she flew “The bird that you will find there Will not be the one you knew.” Jay rested up and flew out As the sun began to rise She finally saw the castle When she stopped to close her eyes. The castle was mechanical, Yet somehow overgrown It seemed so unfamiliar From the Earth the Jay had known She snuck past their defenses But did not know where to look She wandered and by happenstance She ran into the Rook She suddenly was speechless And did not know what to think Emotions filled the poor young Jay; The Rook could only blink. She wanted to be happy, But instead was hurt and mad The bird that she had found He could not truly be her dad And yet it clearly was him Standing still before the Jay She finally cried “How could you?” But he had nothing to say. She yelled at him and pleaded, too But to her great surprise There was no spark of anything Behind his dead black eyes ‘Twas then the Jay remembered The wise words of the Queen Her Father was no Rook, He was a cog in a machine. Emboldened by this knowledge And embittered by it too She realized she had found the Rook But not the one she knew Emotionless, the Rook looked down Upon the tearful Jay She looked up and bid him farewell With that, she flew away. But as the Rook watched after her He sensed something inside And though he knew it could not be It almost felt like pride The world had held Jay down But now she soared into the air Although she’d reached the hidden grove Queen Blackbird was not there So Jay guarded the trees And all the knowledge in between Years after she arrived there She proclaimed herself the Queen And finally as for the title Tall Queen Blackbird took She’d never be a Raven For her father was a Rook @@ @@ [[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box]] [!-- N/A (No Images) --] [[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box-end]]