I went for a long walk yesterday.
I shouldn't have done that.
*sigh*
At 4100 words, this mood (or in-a-mood) piece falls under the 5k line which I use to determine whether to check the Charge For This Post box. But I wasn't going to artificially pad it out in order to reach the minimum, and it was a story I wanted to tell. As such, there's no pledge charge attached to this posting. Anyone who feels it's worth their pledge amount anyway may use my Ko-Fi account at their discretion: otherwise, it's a freebie.
And for those who read it, and wonder how much is real... there was an eagle, and there was a squirrel.
You can take over the story from there.
(The image randomly grabbed by Patreon's link code came from the FIMFiction 'Similar' column. In this case, that's extra-random.)