Of mice and kittens: dealing with friends that don't make sense

Raised by foster pigeons, worried by a creaky branch, our fluffy Baby Owl set out on a quest for wisdom.
“But where do I start looking?” asked a squeaky voice.
Baby Owl stopped and dropped mid-air. What was that?
Just before she hit the ground, she flapped her wings and started flying circles around the spot where she'd heard the voice. It wasn't me, she wondered, was it? Am I hearing voices?
She almost started to doubt herself, when she saw a field mouse scuttle away. “Where is it?” the mouse muttered.
I'm not alone! Baby Owl thought. She landed on a bush near the mouse, flattened her feathers and hooted: “You know you've really lost something when you don't even know where to start looking.”
She was trying to sound a lot smarter than she was - what she really meant to say was: We could be friends and search together!
“Oh hello there, wise young Owl,” squeaked the mouse. “You don't happen to know the way to kittencamp do you?”
“To kittencamp?” Baby Owl asked. “Do you need some help killing kittens?”
“Oh no! It's a meetup of geeks.”
If Owls could frown, Baby Owl certainly would be have been frowning now. For want of eyebrows, a face of wide eyed surprise sufficed. “Why is it called kittencamp?”
“Because everyone loves cats,” squeaked the mouse.

It must have been quite a sight: in a wide field of long yellow grass, perched a scrawny bush, an owl hooting at a tiny mouse. The sun was setting when the mouse admitted that he'd never met a real cat.
“It is my dream to make a puss purr.” The mouse made a purring sound. “That is the one thing I really want to achieve in my life.”
“Why don't you join me on my quest for wisdom?” said Baby Owl. “By the sounds of it, you could do with some.”
“In the words of the great Kanye West: I don’t take offense to anything anybody says about me at this point.”
“The great who?”
“School spirit motherfuckers!” The mouse jumped up on his hind legs and performed a funny dance. “Alpha, step. Omega, step. Kappa, step. Sigma, step. Gangstas walk, pimps gon' talk. Oooh hecky now that boy is raw!”
“Oh,” said Baby Owl, “Of course. Either way, I don't understand how I managed to lose my wisdom. It must have escaped through the first crack in the egg.”
“But why would you want to be wise,” asked the mouse, “when you can be cute like a kitten?”

Owl Is Out To Trick You - 2

“What are you doing?” The biggest pigeon cooed surprised, so that the worm he had been holding dropped all the way back to the ground.

Perched on the edge of the nest, flapping her little wings to maintain balance, baby owl hooted: “What does it look like I'm doing?”

“You're not flying out yet, are you?”

“Less then two days ago, you were still an egg!”

Baby owl had contemplated telling them the truth, but when she saw how the worms had dropped from their silly beaks when they tried to speak, she changed her mind. Instead, she decided she would come back to share her wealth with them once she'd found the treasure.

“Cooing won't help,” Baby owl said to them. “I have to go.”

“But where are you going?” asked her mother.

“You wouldn't understand,” she said. “I'm not like you.”

“Don't you dare speak to your mother like that,” said papa pigeon, and with his beak he pushed baby owl back into the nest.

This was more than the little owl could take. “Maybe you're right, maybe you would understand. I am going out to look for my wisdom. Seeing that neither of you have any, you might understand what it's like to search for it. But the difference between you and me is that you failed, horribly. And I will succeed.”

“Your wisdom?” Her mother cooed.

“What do you think you are,” papa pigeon said, “an owl or something?”

Baby owl bitterly climbed back onto the rim of the nest. She was puffing with effort and anger, and her whole body seemed to inflate, deflate, inflate, deflate at a high rate.

“Fools,” she hooted when she reached the top. Her head turned round to her foster pigeons one last time. Then she spread her little wings and stepped over the edge.

As the wind caught under her wings, all sorts of thoughts flew into her feathers. She suddenly knew she would never see her parents again. She wouldn't come back to share her wisdom with anybody. The creaky branch had been right. Owls are lonesome creatures. They don't love anybody.