Reminds me: I killed a bird with a blunt arrow when I was about the same age. The arrow actually just hit the bird and bounced off, but it fell dead with shock. I never expected to hit the thing let alone kill it. I felt so bad that I wrote a letter to the bird and buried it under a tree.
I remember my grandma cutting a bird’s head off over the kitchen sink that had crashed into our window to put it out of its misery. Your story reminded me of this and I still feel queasy about it after all this time.
Did it run around for a while headless? Mate of mine with a farm demonstrated the Headless Chicken thing by chopping it’s head off and timing how long it ran around sans head; cruel but strangely captivating.
Junior is learning the 5 senses at school and came home with these answers (in bold) on his school work
What do you like to see? mum because she is beautiful
What do you like to smell? mum, she smells nice
What smells bad? poo
What do you like to touch? mum
What do you like to taste? hotdogs
What do you like to hear? despacito