|| TAIGA || Wings of fire [Reader insert]!FEM

Chapter nine

     Taiga and Moon had went back to their dorm, and Taiga was currently sleeping soundly in her hammock.

   In the morning, she had some breakfast in the prey center, and her morning classes with the Winglet.
Now on the afternoon, the Jade winglet met in the music cave with the Silver winglet.

    The sound seemed to swallow her up, reverberating in her bones, and then the dragonets
emerged into a vast cave full of echoes.
It was like being inside a singing bowl; the music catapulted around the
high, smooth walls like thread winding around and around the assembled dragons.

   " Let’s join in! " Kinkajou cried happily, shouting over the music. She
seized a pair of gourds that rattled as though they were full of dry seeds, and
she tossed Moon a wooden box.
The box was square, as long as Moon’s forearm, and looked like it had
several metal tongues of different sizes attached to the top of it. A label
carved into the side said it was a mbira. When she plucked one of the tongues
with her claw, a reverberating, twangy noise came out, and it turned out to be
a slightly different noise for each tongue.

    Taiga went over to a xylophone and grabbed a pair of sticks to touch the keys.
Taiga had one at home so she was pretty good at it already. She started playing a steady echoing tune as she listened to the others, matching their rhythm.

    Soon after that, Qibli came bounding into the cave and straight over to the drums, where he ousted a bewildered-looking SkyWing.
    Qibli went over to the drums beside Taiga.
Qibli drummed with his whole body, like he was dancing and drumming
at the same time. His tail thumped a rhythm on a huge bass drum behind him,
while his front talons jumped and skipped and bumped from one small drum
to another.
     Anemone grabbed Turtle and started dancing, and after a moment,
Kinkajou, the other RainWing, and the other MudWing joined in. The
RainWings whirled together, their scales shimmering from color to color in
time with the music.

   Taiga matched his beat and they were all either making music or dancing, and Taiga couldn't help the smile spreading across her face.

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   Taiga and Moon were walking to the library together when Winter stopped them.
" I want you both to look at my scavenger. "
He said brusquely.
" Oh - uh sure but - " Moon hesitated.
" We don't know that much. " Taiga shrugged modestly.

   " Then use your intuition or whatever. " He said. " We're going to the library though so maybe later- " Taiga said, before being stopped by Winter. " Fine I'll bring him there. " Winter whisked away before they could reply. 
" Oooo, " Kinkajou said, pouncing on Moon’s tail from behind her. " What did he want? What did he say? Can you believe he initiated a conversation
and aren’t you two excited? "

     " It was nothing, "  Moon said. " Um, " Moon said quickly, " just, he’s bringing Bandit to the library for us to look at. "
" Oh, wow! "  Kinkajou said. " He must like you two, to be asking for your help,
right? "

   " Well, no. I'm pretty sure he hates us. " Taiga said, Moon nodded in agreement.

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    Sunny and Fatespeaker were in the library with Starflight; Fatespeaker
was reading to him and Sunny was sorting a new bundle of scrolls into neat piles.
" Hi there, "  Sunny greeted them warmly.

    " We have some free time before history, and Moon said she’d help me
practice my reading, " Kinkajou said, turning her scales the color of old
scrolls with black speckles.