WINGS:
When you find yourself a candidate for a pair of wings, you need to make sure you are ready. To have someone waiting in the wing would help to ease your mind and make things easier.
It would not help to get shot under the wing and get someone to take over on a wing and a prayer otherwise your life's work would be tossed to the pigs. You must take someone under your wing and get them to try out their wings while you are here. To choose someone in the spur of the moment would be wishing for frogs to have wings so they would not bump their butts.
But one thing is inevitable; the possibility of your wings being clipped and you being up for a new pair of wings is a fact of life.
My advice: Make the most of the time you have left