The Beginning

From our last stop, Robin realized that she was now in the big city, no friends, no family, just her.

A tiny insignificant bird in a very large place can be intimidating. Robin sat in her corner, watching the world below her. Hundreds of large grey birds flocked to the grounds below and covered the city.

"What lack of color" Robin thought to herself. "I'll just sit here until someone finds me".

Soon however, nightfall came, and the city turned to sparkles. Twinkling stars were no longer in the sky, but were now on the streets, in buildings, and at the end of the pole on which she sat.

Robin felt a grumbling in her tummy. She hadn't eaten since she arrived. She realized very quickly that she would need to find food and shelter very soon if she didn't want to sleep in the cold. Robin flew down to the street to look for berries and crumbs. The closer she got to the street though, she learned that there were no berries to be found. No seed from bushes. In fact there were no plants at all.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a bread crumb, she hopped over to it when a pigeon swooped down and stole it from her. As Robin scrambled to every crumb, each was picked off by a pigeon before she could eat until there was nothing left.

A large giant had obvserved this tragedy, walked up to Robin, and before she could fly away, dropped a whole piece of bread at Robin's feet. As quickly as she could, Robin gorged on the bread and flew off while the rest was devoured by the pigeons.









Next she had to find a home. She looked high and low to find a tree to nest in, but there was nothing. Suddenly something wooshed passed her. Then another, and another, and... then something ran straight into her. It was a huge white bird, with a long yellow beak. The large bird squaked, "out of the way". As Robin fell, stunned, she floated towards a building top. Close by she saw a large cage full of birds in and out of the cold. She hopped up to the cage, which she could fit through, and was surrounded by the same large grey pigeons she had seen stealing her food.

"Ummm... Hello" she said. "Ummm... Excuse me" she said even louder.

The large flock stopped their chatter. One yelled out "Hey! You're the one with the bread"!!!

The rest all started to talk and gossip about the little bird that had gotten them bread earlier.

Immediately they had a plan for Robin, and unknowingly, she stayed and slept.