"Hey you, I've seen you before." I turned my head and looked for the source of that voice.

A big - a much larger build than mine - white bird, with snow-like wings and a crest that was shining like a fragment of the sun, was calmly fixing its gaze on me.

A big - a much larger build than mine - white bird, with snow-like wings and a crest that was shining like a fragment of the sun, was calmly fixing its gaze on me.

Then the white bird approached me.

Still, I could not help but be afraid of his large body and large beak. "But I've never seen you before, mister." Unwittingly, I took a step back.

"You were born here and raised here, were you not? Where I was born, there was a great mass of the fellow birds that looked just like you." He spoke while eating a stone fruit he took out from a metallic bowl beside him, slowly peeling its skin off.

"You were born here and raised here, were you not? Where I was born, there was a great mass of the fellow birds that looked just like you." He spoke while eating a stone fruit he took out from a metallic bowl beside him, slowly peeling its skin off.