Don’t be alarmed by the gathering of birds as you depart. Often they get a bad reputation for being unlucky signs, but that’s not true.
In actuality, they arrive to bring both good luck and to wish you a safe journey.
The more birds that appear the more luck and protection you will have.
Sometimes they sing. Other times they won’t, but please don’t take that as an insult. After all, do you always feeling like singing? Sometimes just showing up is enough.
As you drift farther out to sea, they will fly away one at a time. Once in a while (not often) one of them will fly next to you for the first leg of your passage.
They are sorry they can’t go with you, but they have their own destinations in mind.
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