Daily story, April 20, 2025

As an Easter treat, I allowed myself to retreat inside an egg. I curled up tight and held still until the shell had set around me. It was small and blue-green, like a blackbird’s egg. When I broke out of it on Monday I saw someone had built a little nest to keep me from rolling away. I washed myself clean and tucked the shell into a gap in the wall, and set about learning to talk again.