In the Forests of Selda, a grassy opening with a pond full of various animals is calm with its inhabitants eating or quenching their thirsts. Large herbivores graze while their young stand close, strange green two-tailed foxes prance around and catch fish in the water while small herbivores prance away from a tree carrying berries and sticks in their mouths away from a large lizard who is climbing down the trunk. Though said peace is interrupted by a large and dangerous beast, a large Seldan eagle flies over the clearing, its large shadow causing the animals to get on edge and tense up. The larger herbivores hide use their bodies to protect their young while the foxes and small herbivores dash into the tree line. The eagle's roughly five meter long wingspan carry it to a cliff side where a nest full of various materials sat in a tree, and it began to do a process that every animal is familiar with. 

Three eggs plopped down into the middle of the nest. The eggs develop quickly due to the species needing to breed quickly to survive. As the embryo developed quickly, so did the eagle's incredible intelligence. After a week of caring for the eggs, the mother opened her wings and took off in search for food. She captured some rodents, amphibians and arthropods, munching them and creating a cake inside her mouth, covered in saliva for the hatchlings to swallow easier. She was ready to feed, and the babies were ready to be fed. Two of the eggs began hatching first, the young ones falling and constantly colliding with each other, still blinded from their young age. As the last hatchling cracked open its egg shell, the first time using his muscles, he'd fall down and crawl on its mother's nest, also blind and confused. The only male on the family being him. Unlike his sisters, he already stands up, only 4 minutes later. He tries to open his eyes, but he's already tried enough. Mother Ulama proud of her hatchlings notices sunset that started not so long after, the hatchlings already full of mom's great mix in a cake. Mother Uluma covered them in her feathers making them warm during the cold night, while she had a deep layer of feathers to also let her go through the night.

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Three weeks have passed, Ropen and his sisters have grown into large and formidable birds with each of them being a bit over a meter in height with wingspans of three meters. Ulama began to teach each of them how to fly. Ropen's first try wasn't successful, falling down from the nest, but not being discouraged. He then tried flapping relatively faster and learned how to use the wind around him to keep balance through the air. After three failed attempts, he successfully was able to take off into the skies. After a couple of laps around the cliffside, he began to search for prey. He notices a large Seldan rat dashing across the field near the cliffside and plucks it from the ground. He brings the rat back to the nest and swallows it whole. He begins to nod off from the activities of the day ignorant to how this will be the last time he sleeps in his mother's nest.

Ropn and his siblings begin to wake up from their slumber and notice a change in Uluma. She began to hiss and use her larger body to push the smaller birds from the nest. Ropen's sisters begin to fly off leaving Ropen alone with his mother. Ropen confused by this sudden change in behavior, stays in the nest and hisses back which causes him to get pecked in the head. The peak is enough of an insentive for Ropen to leave the nest as his sisters did. Though only a little under half his mother's size, Ropen was old enough to leave the nest. Ropen flies off into the horizon with his entire future ahead of him.