• tab Jonnathan was 14. His life was in tragic despair. His girl-friend was caught cheating on him, his parrents were divorced. There was not enough money for him to go to school, to eat, or to even go out with his friends (who at the time would hang out by Silent Lake). The pain and suffering was getting to his head. He started seeing things. Demons, even. His Mother was scared for him. He was sent to a mental hospital, where he denied all help that was offered. Late at night, he would lay on his bed and think "Why do bad things happen to me?
    tab Am I good enough to remain in a world that does not even want me in it? What is my being? Why am I here? Is tere a god?" The only comfort he got, was thinking about him and his friends at Silent Lake, just enjoying themselves. He would then cry.
    The next day, he wandered around the courtyard, looking to the horizion, and the mountains that his the sun. His clothes hd a terrible stench. He had not known why. The only explination he had, was that his inner self, reflectd what he was on the outside. He kept hearing the screech of hawks in the sky. How he wished to be a bird. Able to fly away, and be free to explore the world it a flap of the wings. But then, he heard something bad. Something terrible, even. A hawk fell out of the sky, and landed outside the fence. He rushed over, to see what had happened. The hawk was badly hurt. Almost to the brink of pssing away. The hawk opened it's eyes. Yellow. Pure Yellow. Jon was amazed. Then the bird looked started to talk. "What do you want more than anything in the world?" he said.
    tab "I'd like to be a bird. I would give anything, to be free like you." replied Jonnathan.
    tab The bird had a look upon his face. "Really now?" he said. "Even if you were a bird, you would not be free. Just look at me. People see me as the weakest, and they use me. They keep me around, just for a beating when they get angry. I am not free. I wish I were. But I am not."
    tab "Well," said Jonnathan "what do you want mor than anthing else in the world?"
    tab The Yellow-Eyed Hawk look at him, and said "I would give my life..........to be human." And then, he died.