I looked at my back where my wings we're hiding.

I despised them.

All they had ever done was cause me pain.

They had always been uneven. One was lacking some feathers and was slightly lower and smaller.

It made flying with them harder but I got used to it although I used to only be able to fly with them for over a couple of minutes. After a while, I got faster with them and could go a couple of days without stopping although all that took a couple of years.

When I was younger I always got bullied for having my wings and the fact that one was smaller than the other. I started trying to improve my flying when that was happening and got good at it! But I stopped just before I went to high school and found a way to hide them. I hid them for all of high school and college and they've never been out since.

I haven't forgotten about them.

I've just kept them hidden.

After I left college I started my own server. We would go through the stages of our world "Minecraft" in a server specially designed to go through "updates" when our world gets new materials and blocks and all sorts of stuff. When I made it I didn't realize it started back so far and I accidentally made it when the watchers first started influencing us who they called "players". Watchers at one point wanted to take over our world and all of the servers before they were finally defeated by a group of admins. I made the server too far back, and in the same server number as the one, they started their influence on. Eventually, I and everyone on my server lead the watchers down the right path of helping players instead of manipulating them. Now since we helped them they've been in charge of making sure no servers or worlds get any glitches or corruptions.

Not even the watchers have seen my wings.

But recently my back has started aching and is always sore. I think it might just be my sleeping position as I'm that one person who will randomly fall off their bed in the middle of the night and not care or I would be halfway on the bed, half off.

I walked over to my chests and shulkers that we're all over the place. My base was littered with them as I didn't care enough to build a sorting system. I pulled out a bunch of concrete and all sorts of greenery. I flew up to my atrium and started finishing the roof. I left a hole in the middle of the roof so I could fly in with my elytra.

I liked elytra better than my wings as they could be taken off and literally everyone had elytra.

I finished putting all of the greenery down with a couple of saplings and leaves along with a little pond that has some fish in it.

I relaxed on the edge of the pond with my feet dangling in the water.

It was peaceful.

Everything was quiet.

I heard firework rockets approaching.

I watched as Mumbo crashed on the bottom of my base. I equipped my elytra and glided down to the bottom to see if he was okay.

"Hey Mumbo!" " Hi Grian!" "What brings you here? And are you okay because you just crashed into the floor." "im fine Gri-" "Just because you crash into everything doesn't mean you're always fine!"

He looked in my eyes and I felt my face heat up.

"I know..." "nonono I didn't mean it that way! Hey, how bout we go up to my atrium! I just finished it and it's peaceful..." "Sure!"

We flew up to my atrium and I sat back down in the spot I had been in before Mumbo walked over to me and sat down, making sure not to get his suit coat wet.

"It's so peaceful up here... when did you make this I hadn't seen it before." " I just finished making it today! I've been up here just sitting since it's so peaceful and quiet."

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"It's nice."

Mumbo slid over to me and hugged me. I felt my face heat up as he wrapped his arms around me.

He slowly let go and looked at the sky. The sun was setting and there was a beautiful multicolored sunset.

I carefully laid my head onto his shoulder, looking up at the sky which now held thousands upon millions of stars, glistening in the night sky.