"Where did that kookaburra go?"
"Who cares? Kookaburras
never hurt us."
Thie, Brea, and Hurd were three Indian
mynas sitting on a tree branch where a kookaburra had sat
before flying away to the call of another one rather recently.
The three birds sat on the branch in
silence for a while, before another bird flew onto their branch.
This bird was different than Thie,
Brea, and Hurd. The other bird was the same small size and had the
same yellow coloring behind its eyes but Thie, for example, was white
and light gray while the other bird was black and dark brown. They
recognised it as a noisy miner.
"Hello. What have you been doing
lately?"
"Nothing. Just sitting here."
chirped Thie.
"For how long?"
Hurd felt offended."Who have you
been flying around with who's so energetic?"
"I have seen a crowd of rainbow
lorikeets. They were fast." The noisy miner replied.
Then all four birds heard distant
chattering. After a while, a cloud of rainbow lorikeets flew into the
scene.
"Where's the place?"
"When will we get there, Gri?"
"What did the tawny frogmouth
look like?"
The rainbow lorikeets crowded onto
every little place in a tree. Gri, Eri, Foi, Hiera, and Karr had
rejoined the flock and, being only one sixth of the group, they
thought they would receive little attention, but the rest wanted to
know every single detail about that hungry night. They were heading
to a place where they would get plenty of food.
The crowd of rainbow lorikeets flew
away, leaving the other four birds sitting on the branch alone.
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