Chapter Fourteen
** ** Ruari heard a knock at his door and quickly padded up to it and opened it to find Aidan and Des waiting for him. Excitement and nervousness welled inside him. He had never seen his friends outside of school before. "Ruari!" Aidan said and...
Chapter Six
"Are you ready to go, Keira?" Fallon asked, standing just beneath the doorframe to her room. She looked up and him and gave a solemn nod. The month had passed by faster than she expected it to; it still felt like yesterday when she had lost...
Chapter Eighteen
**Chapter Eighteen**** ** Ruari lay in his bed and stared at his talons as he lit small sparks between them. To anyone else, it would look like he was playing around with his magic, but his mind was ebbing and flowing with constant thought. One...
Chapter Eight
Fallon rushed to the council building, having just received word of an important meeting. He angled down with the tilt of his wings and landed at the steps to the stone and marble-carved building. Two guards immediately opened the door for him, and he...
Chapter Nine
Ruari sat alone behind a pine tree, eating the lunch his mother had made for him before he left. He was out in the courtyard of the school building on break so everyone could eat their fill before continuing class. For everyone else, it was the perfect...
Chapter Twelve
** ** The trip home had been much slower than the trip there. Fallon and Keira often stopped for a quick break mostly to drink some water, but he wanted to check on her wounds to make sure they wouldn't grow into anything worse. The makeshift bandage...
Chapter Ten
** ** "Are you sure you want to go back, Keira?" Fallon asked worriedly. "It'll be painful to see." Keira nodded her head. "I need to see it... I think it'll bring me some closure." Fallon exhaled and dipped his head. "Very well, then. I'll take...
Chapter Thirteen
"Do you think that she could be special?" Fallon asked his brother. "There has to be a reason why she was the only one that survived, right? We didn't just find her accidentally..." They stepped quietly through the forest, a couple leagues away from...