Luke Ochieng Okoth
It's a bird, it's a plane- No, it's a vulture! Wait, that's a bird. But that one over there, that thing, that's a cloud, yep.
If somebody were to look at the sky right above the Academy's rooftop, they would notice that a single hooded vulture had been circling over it for quite some time. Peculiarly enough, it seemed to be flying backwards, accomplishing this with crazed wing motions that would alarm any veterinarian or casual bird watcher. If that wasn't worrying enough, the vulture also was flying upside down.
Luke was having the time of his time. It was good, in his opinion, to cut back every once in a while and do something truly liberating. So, about every other day. Besides, there had been this question on his mind for the last week -could birds get airsick from their own flying? He didn't think that he had ever experience it for himself but it wasn't like he paid much attention to it either. So that was where he had gotten the idea to fly backwards from. Originally, he wanted to try and maintain a nice, constant spin, but all he got from that was a window to the face.
This was the next best thing, then, right? After an hour of doing that, however, it didn't seem like it was doing anything. So he had only just begun to try upside down flying. And to Luke's surprise, not only was he not good at it, it seemed like he had absolutely no talent for it what so ever. Normally, he would be hesitant about saying something so firm as that, but the way that his wings had suddenly locked together in midair violently told him otherwise.
Huh. Who knew that birds can't fly upside down? was his thought as he plummeted down to the roof. When he was only maybe ten feet away from breaking every bone in his avian body, he abruptly shifted back to his much stronger and very naked human form, crashing right next to one of the people who were standing on the roof.
As Luke waited for the pain to settle down, he chuckled to himself, a silly, dreamy smile on his face. "Hehehe flop."
