Anemarin

Part 2_Chapter 2

Anemone's eyes fluttered open. She could see that Turtle and Sepia were still asleep, and Kinkajou was snoring loudly in the hammock closest to hers, Tamarin was watching the sky... not literally, since she couldn't see, but she looked tired and sad. Anemeone wanted to ask if she was okay, but she didn't have the courage, so she just ended up watching her talons. Then she heard Turtle yawn, and her head turned. She needed to talk with him. His eyes eventually landed on her, and she mouthed "talk please" to him. He mouthed "how?" back. She pointed down to the ground, which was quite far down from their platform. Only a few dragons in the village were awake. Most were Jade mountain students, who were at the same table from the previous night, eating breakfast. Turtle got out of his hammock quietly and glided down to the ground as she followed behind him.

"Three MOONS I have a headache." She said as soon as she landed.

"You wanted to talk about a headache?" Turtle said, sounding slightly annoyed.

"No ...I think Tamarin is upset. And I don't know why. And its driving me insane because I want her to be happy."

"Just... ask her what's wrong?" Turtle said, as if it were an easy thing.

"I can't! I want to. I want to help her. But I can't do it Turtle..."

"If you want to help you have to know how. So you've got to ask her. You'll do totally fine, and then you can help her. I know you can do it." He said, looking her in the eyes. She thought for a moment.

"Okay... I'm going to ask her today." She said. Her brother smiled. They walked to the breakfast table together, ready to eat some fruit. Anemone sat down and ate a pineapple, waiting for Tamarin to come down. They were joined by Tsunami, and then Sepia, and then Kinkajou, but no one else came down from the platform.

"Hey Kinkajou, was Tamarin up there when you woke up." She said, gesturing towards the platform.

"Um yeah! And then she said she was going on a walk. I thought she would be back by now." Kinkajou responded while eating her fruit.

"Oh... I'm going to go see if I can find her." Anemone said, stepping away from breakfast.

"Okay... tell her we have PINEAPPLES! She really likes them!" Kinkajou said. She flew up to their sleeping hammocks... no Tamarin. So she flew high into the sky to see if she could locate the RainWing. Mostly every dragon was golden and pink today... except one blue dot outside of the village. Anemone flew closer to the dragon and landed close by, but not close enough for Tamarin to hear her. She saw that the other dragon's wings were drooping down. Oh... she is upset.

She stepped closer to the RainWing and Tamarin heard her. Some of her scales instantly turned bright red.

"Who is that?" She asked quickly.

"I-its Anemone..." She responded, causing some of Tamarin's scales to turn colors she didn't know the meaning of. "... are you alright?"

"Yes... well, not really but... its just confusing. It took me so long to learn how to get around this place... and now there's a bunch of new buildings and trees and the NightWings... and now I don't know where anything is... I just feel lost now. I- I'm probably just being stupid."

"That's not stupid at all." Anemone said softly, taking Tamarin's front talons in her own, "I can help you around, if- if you want me to."

Without warning Tamarin threw her wings around her, and after a surprised moment she returned the hug.

"...Thank you" Tamarin said quietly.