Peacemaker

Chapter Eight

(Peacemaker's POV)

Carrion? What a weird name for a Skywing. 

"Uh, okay..." I mumbled, not sure what to make of the strange Skywing. He just stared and grinned, making me light up with embarrassment. "Uh... are you gonna... kill me?" I squeaked.

"Maybe," he joked, or at least I thought it was a joke. 

I stared at him with wide eyes. 

"I'm kidding!" He chuckled, "did you seriously think I was actually going to pull out a knife and stab you in front of the dragonets of Destiny?"

Yes.

"No," I mumbled.

"Hmmm," he said, unfazed. "Well, I best be going."

I just nodded quickly and turned away, quickly glancing behind to see Carrion still staring at me, a strange look in his fiery amber eyes.

Wow, I thought, entranced by his pretty eyes. 

W-what am I thinking?! I gulped and pushed the thoughts away, walking steadily back to my cave, where I was encountered by a small light blue and pink Seawing.

"Oof!" I exclaimed, hitting the ground with a hard thump. I shook my clouded brain and turned to stare at a not-so-happy seawing frowning in my face.

"Who do you think you are?" She snapped, pointing a sparkling claw at my snout. 

"Uh.." I thought, not sure of how to respond to that question.

"Anemone! Please don't do anything!" I heard a calm and beautiful voice meet that of the shrill Seawing. Her voice was flown and elegant, and I turned to stare at a beautiful blue-and-gold Rainwing dragonet. Her eyes were glazed over, like that of a dead dragon.

I didn't recognize either dragons, with a flush of embarrassment.

"Uh.. do I know you....?" I mumbled, fidgeting with my talons and staring at the two dragonets.

"Ah!" I was met by a startled gasp of shock that came from the crowd that had clustered around us, and I gulped with fear. Oh no... Have I knocked into someone important? I thought, my eyes stopped to land on the pastel Seawing, and with a flash of surprise I realized how be-jeweled she was. Pink ropes of pearls hung from her neck and little sea shell bracelets were clasped to her wrists. My stomach dropped as I realized she was wearing a little tiara embedded with silver-and-pink pearls. 

This is definitely someone important. 

"What even are you, anyway?" She sneered, lifting my wing with one of her talons and peering under into the cascading rainbow freckles sprayed along my underside. She looked surprised and flipped my other wing over, making both of my wings splayed at my sides, facing up.

"Hmph!" She said  crossing her arms with a grunt. 

Anemone merely gazed into the distance, and I was wondering what she was looking at. Oh. I thought with surprise, she can't see me. 

I stumbled upwards and stood to face the Seawing, Anemone. 

"So... I'm Peacemaker... nice to meet you...?" I lifted a trembling talons and held it out to the dragonet. 

She snorted, "I don't shake talons, Nightwing." She said, lifting her jaws so I could see sparkly white teeth. 

"Oh," I said, though not glumly. I didn't even want to be around this bratty Seawing dragonet. 

"Don't mind her," the Rainwing beside her said. "I'm Tamarin." She lifted a claw and I placed my talon in hers. 

"Nice to meet you, I'm Peacemaker." I said nervously, tugging at my wings in distress. I wanted to be curled up in my bed reading scrolls, not out here making social interactions with other dragonets.