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Icarus: Look up, Dad. I need you to catch me.

Daedalus: It's okay not to fly higher than your father. Nothing to be embarrassed about.

Icarus: Dad, look up.

Daedalus: I can hear you, but I can’t see you. You sound worried.

Icarus: I'm losing control.

Daedalus: No, Icarus, no negativity. You're in control, you're in control. Say it with me.

Icarus: No time for that, Dad. Look up! Catch me or I'll die.

Daedalus: No one's going to die. Just a little higher so I can find you.

Icarus: Plan B. I'm going to land on your back, Dad. Just stay still, here I come. In 5, 4, 3,
2 --

Daedalus: (peering down) Wait, is that you, way down there? Hold on, I'm coming to get
you. Icarus. Icarus!

(Icarus plummets right past his father, to his death. Daedalus realizes that all this time he's been
looking at a seagull below him, not his son. The Cretians, who had stopped their boat to watch
in awe the first men to fly, eventually fish Icarus's body out of the water. Daedalus spends his
remaining days and savings unsuccessfully suing the Cretians for wrongful death.)

The End.

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