"I.this is amazing, Fatespeaker." he eventually managed. Starflight froze. Read? By himself? He found himself speechless, unable to think of anything to say that could express just how happy he was. But now you can read again, Starflight." she said, tenderly. "But Fatespeaker, this must have taken you." Starflight paused, returning to the board. "I mean, it's-" Starflight had instantly leapt back, apologising, but Fatespeaker had said that she'd simply hurt her paw earlier in the day, and had avoided the subject from there on. Things suddenly started making sense to Starflight Fatespeaker's long absences, her reluctance to talk about her day projects, her sore foreclaws.one night, when she'd come to read to him, he'd reached out to hold her paw and help her with the scroll, and she'd yelped in pain. "A Natural History of Unnatural Dragon Abilities?" Starflight cried out, running his talons over the board excitedly and feeling the many carved letters that made up the old text. "Did you make this? All of it?" Starflight said, turning to face the direction of her voice. Starflight was sure that Fatespeaker was smiling at him. "It's.it's your favourite scroll, Starflight." she said, audibly trying to contain her delight. "Fatespeaker, what is this?" he said, moving more quickly over the board. He was still quite slow at doing this, but he was steadily getting faster at it. Shortly after the library had been built, Starflight and Fatespeaker had begun looking for a way to help Starflight identify and find specific scrolls in the library, and Starflight had soon discovered that if he tried hard enough, he could recognise certain shapes and letters simply by running his talons over them and visualising the shape in his mind. A? Starlight thought, as he moved his claws to the right encountering more letters. It's better than that." she replied.Ĭonfused, Starflight began running his talons against the nearest groove, only to suddenly recognise it as a shape.a letter. Why would Fatespeaker want to show him a picture? "Is it a picture?" he said, immediately feeling foolish for asking. She let go, and Starflight felt grooves in the wood below his talons. "Here, let me show you," she said, and Starflight suddenly felt her paws on his, guiding them to a place at the top of the board. "Sort of." Fatespeaker said from beside him. "It's.a panel?" Starflight said, his brow furrowing. He ran his talons over the edges of the mysterious item. As Starflight followed her, he heard the sound of Fatespeaker dropping something large down on his desk, and he ran to it reaching out once as he neared the familiar wooden edge. He reached out in front of him, to show that he wanted to help, but Fatespeaker only said "No, no, I'm okay," in response, and continued to carry whatever it was she was holding towards his desk. "Here!" Fatespeaker's voice suddenly echoed from the entrance to the library, and Starflight could hear from the noises she was making that she was struggling with something heavy. His one consolation was that it seemed that now he was going to find out at last just what she'd been up to over the past few days. He hadn't said anything to her, as he knew she would likely worry about him, but he still missed her company. She still came to rest with him at night and read through a scroll of his choosing, but Starflight was beginning to find himself feeling rather lonely without the constant sound of her voice nearby as he worked. Although Fatespeaker was normally by his side or at least in his general vicinity for most hours of the day, in recent times she'd been taking longer and longer absences to work on some unknown project of hers, and she seemed oddly reluctant to speak about it whenever he asked what she'd been up to. He hadn't seen.well, heard her sounding this excited in a long time. Starflight was quite surprised by this sudden burst of energy from Fatespeaker, and listened as the sound of her footsteps echoed in the entrance to the library before disappearing down the hall. "Wait here, Starflight!" Fatespeaker said, rushing off unexpectedly. Taking place some time after the events of "The Brightest Night", "Fatespeaker's Gift" is a short story about Starflight and Fatespeaker's relationship.
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