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Finally the day comes when it's your turn. Someone grabs you and puts you in this small box and takes you away. Your tiny heart is pounding. You are fearful that it may be the last few minutes of your life in this world. When you get to the human's domain, you are placed in a cage where there are no other birds. This is the first time you have been alone since you were born. You see these humans going about doing their day to day activities. Once in a while they stop and notice you! Sometimes they growl and make strange noises that scare you. "Am I here for their food? Are they going to eat me now you wonder?" A few days pass and to your surprise you are still alive. You notice after a while that these strange creatures must have a purpose for you or else they would have hurt you by now. You chirp and try to talk to them but either they can’t hear you or they don't understand you. "What are you going to do with me and why am I here?" you chirp.
The biggest and ugliest one responds with a few grunts. After a while he leaves you alone and flicks on the strange picture machine that has people and animals captured in it. What a bizarre world this is, you think to yourself.
Several more days pass and you notice that the human has been consistently feeding you and giving you water when you need it. You are lonely though and you really miss the conversations and the companionship of your friends. You especially miss that cute little hen with the pretty breast feathers, who used to preen yours when you coaxed her a little. You wonder whatever happened to her anyway. You have only been here for a few weeks now, but it seems like an eternity. You start to notice that the cage door is left open most of the time, so you decide to venture out and have a look around. Maybe I can escape you think. After a while your realize it is hopeless as there is no exit to the free world, but anything has to be better then sitting here in the cage all day. You are hesitant at first, because you're not sure if you can trust these humans yet. For one thing you know that they eat meat and your natural instinct is to stay away from large animals unless you want to be their supper.
A few months pass and you start to get used to being in captivity. Much time is spent exploring your surroundings near the cage. The human that you got to know talks to you and you realize he is trying to communicate with you. After a while you pick up his language by watching what is happening around you and listening to him. It really isn't that hard because you are a master at learning language and you can absorb it many times faster than he knows. There is a problem though. When you try to talk to him, he can't hear or doesn't understand what you're saying. The main reason for this is because you talk many times faster than him. It is very difficult for you in the beginning to slow down your thinking process to get through to him.
