Birds

 

The large black bird circled lazily in a vivid blue sky.

Shading her eyes from the sun, she glanced up at it as she walked, then she stopped and really looked at it.

There was a sharpness to the wings’ edges with no uniform scallops of feathers.

As she watched it glide, her peripheral vision caught something.

It was white, about the same size as the black “bird”, but this was obviously mechanical. A drone, maybe?

It was on a collision course with the black object.

There was no sound.

Just a brief blinding light, and they were both gone.