Wings of Fire Legends • The Blue Comet

Chapter Seven

I knew that I would mess up "Starwalker" as "SkyWalker" but I didn't know that it would happen FOUR TIMES IN THIS CHAPTER- XD

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Part Two: A Comet is Seen

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She fell out of the vision and back into reality as if coming out of a shallow slumber. Immediately, the first thing on her mind was to document what she saw.

     Conveniently, a quill and a mostly blank piece of parchment were already right under her nose. Pathfinder grabbed the quill and scribbled down:

Blue comet at dawn, passes the sun – ? – rage, burns the forest, cat saves dragonet, ice puts out flames, fall asleep under a tree

     "What did you see?" Foresight asked, leaning close and reading over her shoulder.

     Pathfinder sat up, feeling the last remnants of her headache dissipate. It was fading; she had seen what she needed to. Pathfinder blinked and focused on her surroundings: Hindsight, Constellation, and Starwalker were gathered around a table looking at a large star chart. Constellation noticed she was awake and smiled.

     "Feeling better?" she said through her grin.

     With a nod, Pathfinder explained: "Yes, thank you. I had another vision about the comet."

     "Oo!" Hindsight chirped, "what did you see?"

     The way he asked that – with the exact same lilt and excitement as Foresight's question earlier – made Pathfinder blink. Uncanny, their resemblance. Still, there were more important things to focus on right now, and Pathfinder answered his question:

     "Um. I saw the comet at dawn. When I looked at it I almost felt..." I shouldn't say I felt its emotion, Pathfinder realized. That doesn't make sense. Comets don't feel feelings, and I'm sure that would make the astronomers mad. Instead, she described how it seemed to overtake the sun and eventually ended up in the rainforest.

     "But what does the cat have to do with the comet?" Starwalker asked.

     "I'm trying to figure that out," Pathfinder said. In school, she was told that it was up to the dragon who received the prophecy or vision to interpret its meaning, but she was at a complete loss.

     The conversation continued, Constellation asking: "We can think about that later. Right now I'm confused: why are you seeing it burn the rainforest when all the previous visions have been about the city?" Constellation looked down at the star chart, appearing as lost as Pathfinder felt.

     "That's what we saw," Hindsight and Foresight said at the same time.

     Pathfinder nodded. "They only saw the parts of the city. I just saw what I believe is the beginning of this vision: the comet appearing at dawn."

     "Always dawn?" Starwalker asked, checking a scroll on another table nearby.

     "Yes," Pathfinder said. And then the comet passes the sun. She tried to remember the vision and what the rainforest had looked like. She could remember it clearly: the leaves were bright before the comet descended and burned them.

     "What if the comet passing the sun is showing time?" Pathfinder looked around for a map, finding the globe. She rushed to it, spinning it to show Pyrrhia to the other dragons. With a claw, she pointed at the Night Kingdom's peninsula and slowly moved it in the direction of the Rainforest. "The comet appears above our city at dawn, then by the time it reaches the Rainforest, the angle of the sun has changed and it's later in the day."