Wings of Fire Legends • The Blue Comet

Chapter Six

As I was working on this chapter, I realized something.

Posting every week with a new piece of art on top of college and work and visiting family is too much.

I have a lot of reserve chapters written and I hope I'll get back in the groove soon, but I find that posting art with each chapter is the first thing that will have to go. I don't have the energy or time for it, and while I could change my update schedule to keep it, I don't exactly need it. 

I can come back later, however, and give the art the proper love it deserves, if I think the chapter needs it.

Another thing I won't be able to keep up with is the schedule. It will still be weekly, but fair warning it probably won't be restricted to a certain day (Saturday). I'll try to make some adjustments to see if I can keep this, but sometimes I might not be able to post on Saturday so don't worry if it doesn't come right away. I will never leave a story unfinished.

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Pathfinder flew to the Palace as quickly as she could, startling a few NightWings as she tore from her balcony. She did not pay attention to her surroundings, only coming to her senses as the familiar spired structure came into view. Queen Challenger's Palace was tall and elegant, built of stone as dark as a NightWing's scales.

     Her wings took her to a tower on the outskirts of the Palace. It had four high pointy windows and a ceiling painted to resemble the night sky. She landed on the ledge of one of the windows, always kept open until all three members were present.

     She arrived in a flurry of wingbeats and a loud shout of, "I'm here!" causing the two NightWings inside to jump in surprise.

     "You scared me," her coworkers Hindsight and Foresight said at the same time.

     Pathfinder was skeptical about them at first because they had replaced her usual two partners, Augury and Clairvoyance, seemingly out of nowhere. They claimed they were futuresight relatives that could cover for their aunts while they were sick.

     An awful lot of coincidences seemed to shroud the two NightWings. For instance, Hindsight and Foresight were such similar names, even though they claimed to not be related. In contradiction to this, they seemed to need no introduction to each other and even appeared to know each other. Pathfinder was forced to brush aside her suspicions aside when they began working together two nights ago, as they had similar visions to the ones she was getting. They recognized the importance right away and kept busy trying to piece them together.

     "Sorry," Pathfinder said, gingerly climbing down to the landing under the window and walking down the steps. "I overslept and hurried over as fast as I could." She slid behind her desk, which was set underneath the window she came through. A scroll rack covered the wall on the left side of her. "Shall we get started?"

     "Of course," Foresight said, already at his table, which was on the right side of her window. A few parchments lay neatly arranged on his desk, though he never seemed to use them. He was always staring off into space, as he was now, seemingly in thought.

     Next to him, on Pathfinder's left, Hindsight looked up from his scroll and met her eyes, startling and placing a talon above his heart. "You scared me. Where were you?" After he spoke, his eyes flicked to Foresight. The other NightWing seemed to nod in the direction of Hindsight's messy pile of scrolls. Hindsight grimaced, apologizing to Pathfinder and focusing on something he had written.

     That was the other weird thing about them. Hindsight seemed extremely forgetful, which was not so odd on its own, but what was weird about it was that he would always look at Foresight after he said something. Foresight would either smile or look at the scroll, to which Hindsight would understand that he had repeated something he had forgotten.