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Weekly Contest #243
All these years later, I still can’t help but wonder why humans are so keen to lock things away. It was my fault for getting captured. I had been safe, roaming deep within the forests that straddled the border of Oregon and Washington, slipping behind waterfalls and making my home quiet against the mountains, for decades. I was unassuming, and silent, and skilled at being unseen. I knew where humans wandered, and I became familiar with t...
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