It was once called flutterbly, for it flutters. Flutters by.
As I walked the path, a leaf fell onto my hand. It was a wing, not a pair, but one. A colourful one is better than a dull one, an alive one is better than a dead one, and in this case, half of a dead one is better than a whole.
There were dazzling colours, pink, yellow, purple. the colours were so real, until I caught it between my fingers. The wing turned to dust, and my fingers were powdery. Little did I know that the sparkling colours are not innate, the fine prism-shaped powders are dusted delicately such that they reflect different lights, colouring the transparent creature.
The last time I caught a yellow one was more than ten years ago. I wasn't good at it, and you helped me. It was disappointing though, that not only I dirtied my hand, the wings became grey. Therefore I should let the colourful one flutter by, perhaps one of the prisms will fall onto me, shimmering with some colours. Therefore I should crush the half wing, let it turn into dust and so the colours could be blown away in the wind. The prisms of butterfly.
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