Chapter 71: Don't Blame Yourself

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[This chapter has the song "Blame" by Air Traffic Controller in it.]

     RedRunner gripped Feather in a tight hug. She was a bit shocked at first to have him launch himself at her, but she quickly returned the hug.

    "How- how did you find us?" she asked softly. The bright red SkyWing checked her for any new scratches or if any of the old ones were exposed. Once he saw that she was completely okay, he replied with "I had a dream about this place and there was a secret passageway into the 'prisoner room.'"

    "All soldiers and, er, other dragons, we are leaving now," Queen Anarchy ordered.

    "SkyWings will follow me back to the SkyWing Palace, SandWings will follow Thorn back to the SandWing Kingdom, and RainWings and NightWings will follow Glory back to the Rainforest," she announced.

     Everyone agreed and they Meade their way out of the cave system. RedRunner already knew this, but it was a big shock to all of the prisoners that they were inside what looked to be a collapsed mountain in the Claws Of The Clouds Mountains range.

     As everyone was lifting into the air and heading toward their designated Kingdoms, Feather approached RedRunner with a few of the dainty little yellow wildflowers that were growing from the dirt here.

    "Wow those are really pretty," RedRunner offered. "Just like someone else here that I know..!" Feather giggled under her wing before pulling out their egg which she had kept hidden throughout the whole event.

    "Here, if you want to hold her for a bit, you can," Feather murmured, softly brushing the egg's shell.

    "Her?" RedRunner asked, taken aback.

    "Oh, I guess I just have a feeling. Motherly instincts and all..." she replied nervously.

    "No need to be nervous, I'll be just as glad to have a little girl then I will any other gender," RedRunner assured his fiancé.

    "O-oh. Alright," she said, smiling as he took the egg.

    "Now would you tell me more about this dream of yours?" she asked as they lifted into the sky.

    "Well, in the dream, when Arson killed everyone, I couldn't help but think of the perfect song to describe it," the bright red SkyWing admitted.

    "Well, why don't you sing it," Feather replied. RedRunner nodded in agreement before beginning the song softly.

    "I thought: There goes my luck, there goes my pride.

There goes everything that I've been working for all of my life...

There goes that dream, or so it seems...

There goes the days and night, awake and fighting thoughts of losing.

Maybe everything I learned before today was just a waste?

What if everywhere I felt that I belonged was not my place?

And it worked..."

    "Don't blame.." Feather joined in,

    "yourself.

'Cause you tried as hard as hell with the hand that you were dealt!

Don't blame, get on your feet.

Enough 'poor me', if you got time to bitch and whine, well, there's still time to try again!

This time you're free, I know it's hard to believe.

After them days and nights awake and feeling lost, you're losing it.

But if everything you learned before today was just a waste,

Think of everyone you met along the way and all you've faced.

Boy, you've won!"

    "Yeah.." RedRunner replied sadly.

    "So don't blame yourself.

'Cause you tried as hard as hell with the hand that you were dealt.

Don't blame.."

    "Now the road laid out before me is in flames," RedRunner recited one of his exact thoughts in

 the dream.

    "And the bridges that I've crossed have collapsed...

And the vultures they are circling overhead.

They're reminding me of choices from my past..."

    "Don't blame yourself.

'Cause you tried as hard as hell with the hand that you were dealt.

Don't blame yourself.

'Cause you tried as hard as hell with the hand that you were dealt.

Don't blame, don't blame!

Oh, you tried as hard as hell with the hand that you were dealt!

Don't blame, don't blame!

Yeah, you tried as hard as hell with the hand that you were dealt!" Feather comforted him.

    "Don't blame!" they both sang.

    "Don't blame!

Oh, don't blame, don't!

Don't !"

    "And I thought: There goes my luck!" RedRunner finished, panting. Feather was panting as well.

    "That's a good song to describe what happened there," she decided.

    "It really is," he agreed as the group of SkyWings headed toward the palace

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    "It really is," he agreed as the group of SkyWings headed toward the palace.

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