Feathers: Book 1 - Wings Apart

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# Wings Apart

## Prologue

### ~SkyTalon~

SkyTalon soared overhead, flying by at top speed. He dove down with his talons outstretched and- yes! A mouse was wriggling in his talons as he flew back to the nest.

He landed down, flapping his wings to balance on the tree branch. SunFinder, his mate, nuzzled him as he folded his wings onto his body. He smiled and set down the mouse that was now dead. "Hey there, beautiful," He cooed, picking up the mouse in his beak. "I caught you some dinner!"

SunFinder smiled back at as he tore the mouse in half for them to share. "Thank you," She said, already eating it.

"How are the eggs?" SkyTalon asked.

"Perfect," SunFinder responded. "They're going to hatch tomorrow night."

SkyTalon gasped, "Tomorrow night? As in the night where there's a full moon?"

"Yes."

"You know what that means, Sun. The chicks won't be safe."

"I know, I know, they'll have Feathercraft."

"They'll be hunted by birds who want their power! We have to hide them, Sun!"

SunFinder sighed and cradled the 2 eggs in her wings, "Where?" She asked.

"You know where. No bird will go there," SkyTalon said.

"The dark lands," She whispered.

SkyClaw nodded. "I'll go with you. You can't carry 2 eggs by yourself."

SunFinder cast a longing look back at her village, trees upon trees filled with nests of fellow Ravens. She turned back flew into the air, then grabbed 1 of the eggs in her talons. A single tear slid down her feathery face, then dripped down to the earth below. SkyTalon did the same with the last egg, and together they flew to the horizon.

{...}

### ~Skytalon~

SkyTalon carefully placed the egg on the ground, rivers of tears pouring from his eyes. He carefully weaved sticks into a small nest, then placed the egg into it.

It had been a day since he got separated from SunFinder while hunting. *She's still alive, she has the other egg, I know it. I can feel it.* Every Raven had FeatherCraft, but other birds had weaker connections, and Ravens that had hatched on a full moon have immense FeatherCraft, with abilities like no other.

He could feel SunFinder was alive with the egg through FeatherCraft, but his FeatherCraft was weak, as was SunFinder's. They had both hatched on the same night actually, but to different families. His mother had told him it was a moonless night. The worst day for a Raven to hatch, as they would get almost no feathercraft.

The full moon shone bright above, the exact opposite of when he had hatched. The dark colored greyish egg began to crack. A beak pushed it's was through the shell, and the chick was staring right at the full moon. It's light seemed to soak into her feathers, giving them a silvery glow. She hobbled out of the eggshell, running around the small nest seeming to want to chase the moon.

"MoonChaser," SkyTalon said, "Hello, MoonChaser, welcome to the world."

### ~SunFinder~

Sunfinder cried. She cried rivers of tears, rolling off her face and onto the ground. She cried her heart out, searching for SkyTalon, but SkyTalon was nowhere to be seen. She gently set the egg down in a nest that she had made. It was almost midnight, and the full moon shone far overhead, the stars twinkling all around it.

She knew that SkyTalon was alive, she could feel it with FeatherCraft, but she had no clue where he was. The moon's light was blocked from the canopy of branches. She hadn't reached the dark lands yet, but she figured that she was far enough away so that other birds wouldn't find her.

Sun heard a cracking sound and turned to the egg. There was a large crack on the side of the egg. A small beak poked through, and then the little chick burst out of the egg, and looked up to the sky. She couldn't see the moon, and she closed her eyes. SunFinder watched in astonishment as the branches seemed to clear from the sky, and the moon's light streamed down, landing on her.

The light soaked into her black feathers, giving them a silvery glow.

"LightBringer," SunFinder said. "Your name is LightBringer, and we're in this together now."

## Chapter 1

### ~MoonChaser~

##### ~3 moons later~

"But *daaaad*," MoonChaser whined. "I want to on my *own*! I'm old enough and you know that I can do it."

"No, Moon," SkyTalon said. "You can't go anywhere on your own. And I know better than anyone that you'd do something else."

"You don't know that," She muttered under her breath. SkyTalon raised his eyebrow ridge. "What was that, little miss?

"Nothing, dad,"

"Of course it was nothing. Now, we're going hunting."