Shattered Chrysalis

Oh God help me I have so many writing WIPs...
Hello, hello, hello! It's your favorite silly amatuer dragon author, back at it again with another fanfic for ya'll to read! SPOILER: This is a romance fic. My very first romance fic, to be exact. I'm actually really excited to share this one, since my second main sona is in it! Enjoy!
Let the reading begin!
===Chapter 1===
It was Summer’s first day on the job and she’d already gotten yelled at a total of 17 times. Once for accidentally knocking over her mistress Vespula’s cello, once for spilling her jasmine tea, once for putting to much spice in the coconut-mango meatballs and “setting my mouth on fire!”(Vespula’s words), and countless more she couldn’t remember. She was miserable. Each time Summer messed up, Vespula would yell at her and walk away grumbling about how she had to get “a subpar servant with butterflies in her ears.” Even worse, her Hive transfer paperwork had gotten lost during the move from Wasp Hive to Cicada Hive, so she didn’t even have a web of her own to sleep in. So here she was, in the guest room of her mistress’ estate with her head buried in her wings and trying not to cry. Summer couldn’t wait for today to be over. Maybe tomorrow would be better. Tomorrow her mistress might send her to the market for groceries, and she wouldn’t be yelled at all day.
These were the thoughts cycling through her brain until she felt someone poking her tail. “Hey, are you awake?” said an unfamiliar voice.
Summer looked up to see Vespula’s daughter, Lampfly. She was an orange and black Hivewing, like a flamesilk lantern shining in the night. Summer hadn’t heard a word from her since she arrived home from school. Lampfly was giving Summer a strange look.
Summer sniffed and sat up. “Yeah. I’m awake.”
“Are you okay? Mother was yelling at you pretty bad, more than she yells at me.” Lampfly said, a concerned look on her face.
Oh. It’s sympathy. She didn’t think she had ever heard someone being sympathetic for a lowly Silkwing servant, much less the daughter of a famous musician.
“Er, um, I mean, I guess I’m okay… It’s just that I’m not used to this,” Summer said, looking down and her dark turquoise talons. “Um, but I’ll be better tomorrow, I promise.”
Lampfly tilted her head to the side, looking directly into Summer’s eyes. “You don’t have to act like a servant around me, you know. I’m no one special. And you’re off duty anyhow.”
“No one special?” Summer said, confused. “But you’re Vespula’s daughter. You go to the best school in Cicada Hive. And by the way she talks about you, you’re top of your class.”
Lampfly settled down beside her, her gaze fixed on her crossed talons, lost in thought. “It would be nice if she would say it to my face sometime. Mostly she tells me to stay out of her way and be good,” she said. “I don’t even want to be a musician like her!” Lampfly exclaimed, flinging out her wings. “I wish…I wish…”
“That you could make your own choices?” Summer asked. Lampfly looked up at her, but Summer was staring out the window, at the stars that glimmered over the savannah grass. “That you could be who you want to be, do what you want to do, and be with whoever you want?”
Lampfly matched Summer’s gaze, her intense blue eyes boring into Summer’s olive green ones. “Yeah,” she whispered. “You… get it. Don’t you…”
Suddenly Lampfly stood and looked down at Summer with an expression that Summer couldn’t read. “Come with me,” she said.
Summer’s face became a mask of confusion. “Come with you where?”
“Come on, I know a place,” Lampfly said with a giddy expression, hopping up and down excitedly.
“Um, okay…” Summer said, hesitant but curious. With a twitch of her tail, Lampfly beckoned to Summer to follow, then snuck down the short spiral starcase, her body low to the ground and her wings tucked in close to her sides. Summer did the same, casting anxious looks around the shadowy living room for Vespula. Confident that the angry red HiveWing was nowhere in sight, Summer slipped out the door right behind Lampfly out onto the night-filled street.
Summer looked around at the houses up and down the little cul-de-sac, at the flowers in elaborate gardens and the wild architecture of the wealthy upper-class. Lampfly ran over to the edge of the street, where a thin, low fence was the only protection against the long drop to the bottom of the Hive. She vaulted over the fence, onto the thin stretch of ground beyond it, and leaped into a hover with her wings buzzing in the cold air. She turned and looked at Summer with an excited gleam in her eyes and a broad smile on her face. “Come on, Come on!” she half-whispered to Summer before flying upward and disappearing.
Summer took one last nervous look back at the dark road before jumping over the fence and beating her wings, rising up after Lampfly. She followed the glimpses of the little orange HiveWing’s black tail and shimmering wings up, up, up past countless streets and markets and public buildings until Lampfly led her to the top of the Hive and out the massive skylight. She popped out and gasped with surprise at the view.
The stars were endless and sprawling, like a never ending blanket of dewdrops on a web. Thousands of tiny pinpriks of light sparkled on the night dew on the savanna grasses, like Summer was sitting on an island in the middle of space. Not even the best tapestry, no, not even the best paints could capture it like Summer’s eyes could. SilkWings weren't allowed outside at night unless they were traveling to another Hive for their masters. I might be the first SilkWing in the whole Hive to see a sight like this. she thought. She closed her eyes and tried to capture it in her memory forever.
“This is where I go to think,” Lampfly said, taking Summer’s talon and leading her to a spot near the edge overlooking the vast plains, “And to get away from Mother.”
Summer just stared out at the sky and the horizon. “I love it…” she murmured. “How in all the Hives did you find this place?”
Lampfly ducked her head, speaking softly. “It was about a couple of months ago, I think…”
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