Nightjar's Wish

    I fell in love with a Mediterranean Witch, I can see her in the garden. My work is to pick up the fruits from the trees, and hidden I can see her between the cactus fig. She steps in and I dream that she also notices me, but she leaves again with some books under the arm. After hours, she arrives with a smelly bag, I wonder it is fish...? But it could also be dead snakes. Other times the air smells like essential oils.         

    The furniture is outside, and ornamental flowers art is carved in most of it. I don´t really know how to approach her, my body is not the most human alike, I only have two legs and arms at the same time... because I´m a European Nightjar, a Caprimulgus Europaeus. 

    I saw the witch speaking to a half creature, the so call guardians. They can communicate with humans, animals and plants. They are intelligent and good guides, specially to reptiles and migrant birds. To me is not such a problem once I stay here most of the time hidden on bushes or trees. I also prefer the night to daytime and do my nest and lay the eggs on the floor, where I can pretend I´m a cicada by repeating the ways of the cicada's sounds. 

    My adventures go further, and I spend time with the guardian Lhasa. So I can know something more about those regular objects collected by the Mediterranean Witch. She divided the objects in two categories: animal and vegetable. The animal collection consists of snail shells, bird skulls, bees, butterflies, a bone, a wing, a jaw with teeth, a fish bone and a dog pillow paw. The vegetable collection is: stones with holes, a piece of dead pita, barks, wings, dry fruits and crystallized fungus formations.

 

            

I often leave a few ocean collections in her table: coral stones, seaweed, gorgonian corals, shells, ropes and crab shell.

    I ask many things to the guardian about the Witch, but they always tell me to talk to her. One day they told me about my presents to her, and before I asked if she knows about me, they said:

-"She is often here, in the forest, while you spend time in her garden." Other time the guardian say:

- "I'll tell her about you, if you don't ". And I reply with my open big red mouth:

 -Uff, but I'm a bird, I'm naturally shy and humans can't understand my words...

-But you can ask me a wish like all animals, insects, plants and trees from this forest. It is part of my job to conceive a wish to each creature under my protection. You could ask the ability to talk to humans." They said with its gorgeous spiral shape butterfly trunk: "-I'll give you time to think about it, but it makes sense, it is only one wish and because you are a bird you are able to understand human language, but you can't speak it... So... Now ask me to be able to speak it. 

-"Well, give me a day to think about it." - I answered.

    

    And here I am in the Mediterranean Witch's garden clearing my thoughts!

 And this will be my wish: the ability to speak human language.