Burning Diamonds (Book 16)

= Chapter 1 =

Tear
Tear jumped over a fallen tree and pulled held her wings close to herself so she wouldn't cut them again. Her tail grappled onto a branch and she swung forward, and startled herself by going forward into a patch of mud. She wiped herself off and muttered to herself. Light came over giggling and helped her up, they walked back to the palace and swam in the lake in front of it, mud and worries washing off.

"LIGHT! TEAR! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" The queen, their mother, yelled.

"Mother wait let me explain!" Light started to say.

Tear  shook her head and decided to come clean.

"I'm sorry mother, I was exploring again," she said, her head hanging low.

Her mothers volume only increased, “YOU WENT OUTSIDE OF OUR TERRITORY, IT'S DANGEROUS! THERE’S WAR OUT THERE!”

“I know…” Tear and Light said in unison.

“Go. Now…” The queen said darkly.

Tear and Light  walked past the main entrance, approaching their shared room. The room was sky blue with little dots of white specks around and there was a mural of the three moon at the top of the ceiling.

“That… was harsh,” Light said.

“Not really for mom actually,” Tear responded.

“Really? Wow… I don’t think I’m going to challenge her anytime soon,” Light said.

Light was Tear’s little sister, she always talked about challenging their mother and how she could lead the Sunwings to be their own tribe instead of being controlled by the Lightwings.

Tear wondered how it would be like to feel free and be free from her mother but then a dark thought entered her mind, that meant they would be fighting the Reefwings and the Lightwings.

She shook her head and said, “No, you can’t challenge her, you’ll be putting our whole tribe at risk!”

Light nodded her head sadly and flicked the drops of water still on her tail from the swim they had when they entered the palace.

“Hey! Stop that!” Tear said, shoving Light playfully and running away. Light chased after her, tripping and stumbling on the slippery floor. Tear looked behind to see where Light was, suddenly she was airborne; sent through the air after tripping over her own talons.

That's when it all went black, like the lights went out. Tear could only hear, and what she heard wasn’t pleasant. She heard  bones cracking, she felt warmth as blood pooled at her snout.

Several hours later, she woke up in the healing room. It was a pale blue room with white dots at the entrance and has many shelves with different ointments and herbs.

One of the healers was looking away and the other one was sorting through scrolls.

Tear’s snout was throbbing and everything seemed to double. She stumbled over to the shelf opposite the shelf where the second healer was. She leaned against the shelf and stuck her talon on the third shelf.

Pulling off a cap of a random bottle, she pours it on her snout. The coolness of the syrupy liquid is only for a second before her snout feels like it's being stung a million times.