wings sprout from my back (illus.)

 There’s a horrible family fight with my right-wing, conservative cousins condemning me viciously for my liberal beliefs. I’m staying very calm and quiet and look at them with sadness. Suddenly I fly up into the sky backwards while majestic wings sprout from my back and arc dramatically to either side. Orange and yellow lightning envelops me; but I somehow know this is not to exact any kind of revenge on them. It’s just to get away from them very rapidly and send a message to them to leave me alone. They disappear quickly out of sight, but I did see shocked expressions on their faces. I fly so fast and so high that I start to see the curve in the earth’s horizon. And my cousins are far away, and out of sight.