Some people live in a bird that travels through the air in a strange world of nothing. What is the world of nothing? It could be a world with the only sky, no land, and no ocean; imagine a place where the sky is filled with beautiful colors, like being in a three-dimensional abstract painting. Is this a bird-shaped ship? No, it’s a living bird, like a live machine. Was this a bird of flesh and blood? These birds are living things residing both in the physical and non-physical worlds; some are large and small. What did it mean that people could live in them? Size had nothing to do with this; within the bird homes, as they were called, these people lived in a particular dimension where space had nothing to do with physical confines; this means a living room could be as large as one wished; there were infinite panoramas that stretched as far as one desired, the point physical space doesn’t exist in the physical sense. But why were the people’s homes shaped like birds? The reason is that they couldn’t be found; long ago, these people had enemies that tried to search for them but couldn’t find them. Eventually, history had their enemies fade away, but the bird homes and worlds remained. As these birds could fly from one area to the next at high speeds, people living in the bird-like homes never felt the rate, there was calm, and there was no sensation of flight. This was the reason they felt a feeling of isolation from the rest of the world. The bird people, as they were sometimes called, lived in their world.
Think of the birds as flying ships, homes that can go anyplace, sort of nomads of the sky. How could a living bird hold people? They are living birds because they are artificial life forms, and the organs are machine parts and propulsion units. Some of the other device parts are biological. The flying birds can make themselves small or appear that way.
The bird homes reside in the mountains, where they are at rest. Mountains were safe places; they were far away from the plains and deserts where there could be trouble. Scavengers had harassed travelers for years, so travelers along the plains or desert found shelter in places they felt were safe; the bird homes, for a price, served as a shelter for travelers, which took them up to the safety of the mountains. The bird homes flap their wings like real birds, but they have apparatus for cutting off the flow of gravity and some engine. If there are engines, they are small. Thus flying off keeps travelers safe from harm.
The world where people lived in bird-shaped homes wasn’t an empty sky like the world; there were deserts below but not the same ones as those of the Seicula; these were sky deserts with no clouds, no rain clouds, with bright glaring sunlight, all the time. Water could be taken from clouds and pools of water that flowed in the sky. Of course, the world of the physical desert world could be reached. The physical mountains and forest were accessible by the bird homes, but very rarely did they touch those places.
The bird homes are made of a type of light; the outer light is transparent, and the inner light is opaque and solid, more complex than metal or diamond. The bird homes can hover, and people living in them can see the view from a high vantage point. They can speed around the world quickly, but unlike sky cities, they don’t trade with people from other lands. The people living in the bird homes keep to themselves. People seeing the birds at a distance can see the birds flapping their wings in multiple images. Sometimes thousands of these birds will fly, and the sun glistens on them with great beauty.
The birds were of different sizes; as said before, size didn’t matter to the people who lived within them. Maybe size is not essential; size is a matter of a family’s preference.
Some elderly people had lived in a bird home but died; the bird homes continued to travel around after the deceased person’s body had been removed. Later new life is found, and an artist, designer, or engineer moves to create a flying studio. The bird homes will attach themselves to a tower; it’s the place a home where they permanently live, docking the bird home in the air like a boat on the water.
Living in a bird home, one could imagine furniture would slide around during the flight, so it would be similar to a plane. The answer is yes and no the beds are anchored, they can recline like a seat on a plane, and other furniture is loose and arranged according to the owner’s preference. The bird home has an inner and outer haul; the internal remains stabilized no matter where the bird home flies and the direction, upside down, rolling on its side, the people think they are upright. Nothing will fall as the bird home tips or twirls in the air.
The tower gives the needs of the people living in a bird home, where everything from supplies, fuel, and food is created or bought by the owner. The towers are places to rest after long periods of flight. The buildings float in the sky.
It had been seen that the bird-like homes become one with the towers as they dock. As they become one, they disappear from vision. The only things seen are very tall trees. Although a bird home might be significant, it appears as a small bird.
There are many types of dwellings in the imaginary or mythical world; they come in every inconceivable form, there is no limitation to form, function, or material, and the fictional world is impossible.
Robert J. Matsunaga
