Right, I tried to do the prompt for today (poetry ending line), but I couldn’t even write a story for it. So here’s some tenuous linking from the prompt to the sort of thing I make up during class rather than paying full attention:

(This comprises the opening section of one half of the story)

Aryani Neven meets ‘Sky’ Eyvindr, a boy without wings. When he lets slip that his parents — both government workers, just like Aryani’s — are planning to change laws on discrimination against those with wings for the better, both go missing unexpectedly.

Aryani, believing that she may be at fault, offers to help Sky escape Halos City, intending to leave herself anyway. They begin to stake out the Ring around the City, and while Aryani keeps far back, Sky gets close enough to recognise two people on the Ring (a sort of magnet for feathers).

But this is the night of the Switch-Off, and as such he’s forced to watch their bodies plummet down into Wareborn and its surroundings.

(He doesn’t tell Aryani he sees this, of course)

There’s three months before they can try to escape now, though, and they know this for sure. The Switch-Off of the Ring happens roughly tri-monthly, and Aryani is winged. They cannot risk being too early, or too late.

So they spend the next three months trying — and succeeding — to hack into government computers in order to work out when the next Switch-Off is. Their only way of getting off of Halos is reliant on it.

On the night, both sneak out to the boundary, silent until they’re almost to the point where the Ring will pull Aryani to it due to her wings. At this point, she asks Sky if he’s actually okay with this.

After all, he will die if they make a mistake. If they misjudge how long the Ring takes to turn, or if he jumps too late, too early — he cannot fly whilst Aryani has a chance to survive.

(And yeah, both survive it because the plot of the thing I’m working on kinda depends on it).