My Blood Wizard System
They spilled out of me in Romanian and Japanese at the same time, overlapping like double exposure:
“Lumină lină, ceață blândă—ridică aripa frântă.”
“Yasashii kiri, hikari yo—tsubasa o naose.”
The mist answered.
It rose from the cracks in the concrete, silver and warm, wrapping the bird like cotton.
Light—soft, not blinding—poured from the center of my right palm where the spiral sometimes slept.
The broken wing straightened with a tiny pop.
Bones knitted.
Feathers smoothed.
The sparrow blinked once, looked up at me with black bead eyes, and launched straight into the sky.