Soaring (Soaring Saga #1)

☆Chapter Two~I Am Very Confused (As Is Audra)☆

      I just stared. I couldn't believe it. If she knew, I could trust her. So I nodded. 

"O-Okay then... have you ever told anyone...what w-they are?" 

     I shook my head. Audra backed up, took a look around, stepped back up towards me. She closed her eyes, and, right in front of me, WINGS came out from under her denim jacket.

     Holy. Freaking. Cow. (I kinda knew it!).

      Another part Avian? And she was RIGHT BESIDE ME? That's why she was so nervous! New people, so more worries about hiding her wings! They were feathered like mine, but silver with black at the top and lighter at the bottom. A White Tailed Kite, I think (not the toy kite, a bird kite).

     Automatically I took my jacket off, and FROOF, my wings went to full size. Audra looked at least twenty times more relieved. We just looked at each other in silence. I then asked her,

"So... do you know if there are more of us?"

"Must be," She replied with a shrug. "Where you from?"

"I'm pretty sure I was born in Sweden, but I have moved all over Norway with foster parents ," I explained, "Do you have a name for people like us? "

"I say Avian-Norwegian. "

"Okay, this is strange, but I call myself part Avian!" and I realized, if she had wings like me, she might see and hear spirits too! Where else would she get the name? Before I even got the chance to ask her, and she gasped a little.

"You do too?" 

"I... what?" I asked.

"You see ghosts too?" Audra repeated.

"Yeah!"

"Can you fly?"

"Totally, you?" 

"Not well, but I try sometimes."

 "I could show you one day..."

"That would be amazing!"

     We had a great few minutes, but then I heard shuffling from one of the houses. I shook my hands in a downward motion, telling Audra to put her wings back in. She was in the middle of doing so when a face of an old man appeared in the window above us. He looked down, and went wide eyed. He ran away from the window, most likely to call animal control or something.

     I cursed, probably too loudly. I put my wings in my shirt, and I grabbed Audra's hand and ran like the wind. 

"Cirocco!" She yelped. 

"We have to go!" I replied. 

"No, I mean we should head out of town!" She explained. I realized the alleyway went to second street,  which is crowded with people, cars, and restaurants all the time. I stopped. I took a breath. There was only one way out of this.

"You said you could fly right?" I asked.

"Not well, but yes," Audra confirmed. 

"Okay then, get a running start, take off when we reach that backyard shed!" I explained and pointed back down the alley. She looked at me, but then nodded. 

"Ready... go!" I said. We got a running start, then we spread our big wings, and WHOOSH, flapped into the air. One flap got us to part of the height of most of the houses. Audra's wings were smaller and thinner that mine.

     We flapped up, up, up, higher, higher, higher, until we could see half of Woodleif. I looked up. I measured the sun's position, and we were facing southwest. You know, the sun rises in the east, sets in the west?