Faster than an Owl

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I bet you've always thought Glacier had one brother: Narwhal. But that's wrong. Glacier had another brother, one who is never spoken of in IceWing culture...this is his story...
== Prologue ==
Why do dragons have wings?
They have no need for them. They can hunt on the ground just as easily the sky, especially RainWings and SandWings, along with IceWings. 
So why?
== Chapter 1 ==
Sleet, like always, was lost in the IceWing Palace. 
Despite being a prince and having lived in the palace all his life since hatching, he must have only explored at least half of it. He eventually emerged into a large, domed area. The dome above him had ice as the roof, with snow on the insides. Carvings of snowflakes, polar bears, seals, reindeer, icicles, glaciers and other flora and fauna of the icy world had been carved in the snow with IceWing claws. 
It was then that a messenger suddenly came flapping down the hallway. He landed on the ice floor in front of the prince and bowed his head quickly.
"Prince Sleet, your mother requests you join her in the throne room. Immediately," said the messenger. Sleet tilted his head curiously. Queen Freeze never wanted to see her oldest son, especially since he'd been moved down to the Fourth Circle, even though it was her who moved him down. However, Sleet followed the messenger into the throne room. 
No morning light was shining in through the several windows that dotted the smooth walls. The sun was hidden behind the thick canopy of gray clouds that clogged the sky. And there was his mother, coiled on the throne with her soft tail drooping down the dais.
For a queen, and an old one at that, Freeze was a small queen, with stubby claws and a pretty face; her eyes were a sort of light gray, and her forked blue tongue was always hanging out of her mouth in an odd way. She also always had a small necklace with multicoloured gems on that shone different colours in different light settings. And yet Freeze always gripped the sides of her throne as though she was expecting for someone to try and force her off. This may be because Freeze didn't deserve her throne. Sleet, Narwhal, and Glacier's aunt Stoat had fought and killed their grandmother. However, after only a month, she realised she was an awful queen, and decided to abdicate the throne. Since she had no other sisters, had no daughters, and Glacier had not hatched at the time, the only who could take was Freeze. And since then she'd murdered everyone who could be a danger to her throne, allowing only one heir to be alive at once.
Anyway, Freeze was perched on her throne, though she looked worried, as though someone might push her off the throne. Every icicle ruff was perfectly straight, every scale pure white and polished from spending all her time in the IceWing Palace salon. Her gems jingled as she raised her neck to glower at Sleet. The wire part of the necklaces was tied around the different ruff part. "Finally." Then she twitched her tail at the dais, where Glacier and Narwhal were stood.
"Sleet, Narwhal, we will have a celebration tonight, as Glacier has finally reach the First Circle. Sleet, you will be surrounded by aristocrats, and so, for once, behave," ordered Freeze. Sleet only just resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Another boring celebration, just because Glacier reached the First Circle. "For now, I want you all to go to your rooms, except Glacier. Glacier, go and get ready."
More coming soon...
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