Broken?

Once upon a time there was a little community of caterpillars...the caterpillars lived happily crawling around on the ground and plants, eating leaves together until one day...they watched as one by one of their family and friends crawled away and became encapsulated in some kind of weird blanketing system that they didn't understand... Their friends stayed in that weird blanket device for a very long time! and then...something even more bizarre happened! Some of the blankets started to tremble and shake and break open! And the caterpillars wondered, was their friend being released? Was their friend breaking out of that thing!? But no...it wasn't their friend or was it? It was something they had never seen before...it was their friend and their friend was broken! and would never be the same, never be able to crawl along with them on the ground and eat leaves with them again! Now their friend was deformed with things growing out of it's back! The things flopped around as their old friend tried to gain control of this new growth that had broken them! The poor little caterpillars watched in horror! As their friend gained control of the deformity growing out of their backs, the evidence of the brokenness, their friend began to smile! How could their friend smile in it's brokenness!? but wait...their friend was walking to the edge of a leaf...it wasn't crawling anymore and wait, no wait...don't jump! But their friend flapped it's new deformity and floated away ~ the little caterpillar watched in awe as it's broken friend flew to new heights~