This duck was migrating far away with her friends, when, for some reason, she hurt her wing and realized that, unfortunately, she couldn't make it. She looked around and found a garden with several chickens, as well as three non-migratory white Pekin ducks. They seemed happy, well-fed and friendly, so she decided that she would stay there. She landed on the wrong side of the fence, but a young girl saw her, chased her and put her inside the fence, together with her other ducks. She proceeded to name the new duck Artemis.
Artemis stayed there and was getting along very well with her three friends, especially with the youngest one of them. She was friendly to her human hosts, eating twice a day together with the other ducks and chickens, and obediently walking into the coop at dusk. However happy she seemed, though, she could not forget her previous friends and often used to face north and cry - these long sequences of quacks, with their decreasing pitch and volume, definitely sounded like mourning.
One day, while taking a walk on the snow, some wild animal decided to attack. Her wing wasn't completely healed yet, but she still decided to ignore the pain and fly to safety. Her human hosts have lost traces of her since that incident. Unfortunately, her three friends were from a race that could not fly...
It was so nice being with you for a few months, Artemis. Sorry I couldn't protect you...
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