>>18551604Climbing up the fire escape, Andi leads Robyn McDaid to the rooftops where every now and then she comes to clear her head. The sun is setting, and Andi hands Robyn a sandwich and a fruit cup, then sits down near the edge of the roof.
>"Being up here helps me sort out my thoughts. Every now and then, I do exactly what we're doing now: I grab a little food, come up here on the roof, and have myself a little picnic while the sun's setting. Being up here on the roof is like being at the border between two different worlds."Andi looks up at the sky.
>"See, up there in the sky, there's hardly anything there. But there's lots of potential. Nothing in the way. Limitless freedom, if you could just take off. Heh, funny thing is, we've both got bird names, Kestrel and Robyn, and yet we can't fly. Doesn't seem right, does it?"Andi smiles and looks down.
>"And down there is another world, full of stone walls and rules and barriers and trouble. But that's where the action is. Because that world is alive, with so much going on that we can't even understand it if we try to think about it. That's the world that we live in, most of the time.">"Up here, between the two worlds, sometimes I realize how free I am, and what I'm capable of, even when I'm down there. Even though I can't fly. At least, that's how it looks to me."Andi shrugs amiably, gazes off into the sunset for a second, and then unwraps her sandwich.
