Wings of Fire Legends: Gulf

Chapter 3

     Gulf climbed out of the water, she had been coming to see RainWing, acctaully named Kobi almost everyday since the day they met. She hadn't told anyone, for the elders would definitely not approve of her visits, and Grain had agreed not to tell, even though she knew he hated doing it, they were still pretty much siblings.

    "Hello, Gulf." Kobi said, opening the door. Her scales were pastel shades of pink and blue.

      Gulf smiled, "Hello, Kobi." she was happy to hear her name in the dragon-tounge, it had taken so long for them to find the proper translation.

         "So, how have you been?" Kobi asked her, letting her step into the cabin.

     The inside was small, yet it made efficient use of space. A round, wooded table stood in the center of the square room. A portrait of a younger Kobi and a male RainWing that Gulf didn't know hung on the wall to the left above a small scrollshelf. Kobi was apparently one of the only dragons of her kind who could read them. The wall across from it was occupied by a window, and towards the back of the room there was no wall, just an opening into a longer, rectangular room.

      "I've been good." Gulf said, her rose colored eyes scanning the inside of the house that always made her feel warm and welcome.

        Kobi smiled, "Good." she said. Gulf's heart began to race with excitement as Kobi reached for the scrollcase to pull out the scroll thet held the story that she had been teaching her to read.

      After learing the most important words for learning about eachother, Kobi had been teaching Gulf more dragon vocabulary by reading from a scroll.

     Kobi lay the open scroll across the table. "Let's see, where were we?" she muttered, searching the script on the parchment with a cadet blue talon while Gulf looked over her shoulder, scanning the words along with her.

      "Aha!" she gasped, the pink in her scales shining more vividly as she perked her ears as part as the smile that spread across her face when she found the correct passage.

       As Kobi read aloud through the ancient tale of the young RainWing princess who had been cursed by an animus, Gulf always felt safe to speak up wherever a word she did not know came up in the story, for even though it happened a lot and Gulf was sure that she had known some of the terms that she had asked about, Kobi was  always patient, always caring, and always kind.