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Fang lifted me up. Trying to avoid my broken wings. It hurt really badly, but, I wasn't a baby.
I was still wary of Fang, he had pushed me out of the sky after all, but I needed him to get me to safety.
Fang ran along the desert sand, trying to get enough momentum to lift us up into the sky. After about two hundred yards, he jumped into the air and flapped his wings, hard. We slowly gained altitude, like an injured bird.
Fang's face strained visibly at my weight. I was small and light, but a hundred pounds is still a lot to carry. I tried to think "light" and "feathers", so that Fang didn't have to work so hard.
"What are you thinking about?" Fang asked quietly.
I blushed, he knew me so well that he could tell when I was thinking something, "Um, feathers and helium and light things," I muttered.
A tiny smile crept across Fang's face. His face was slightly closer than I would have liked, but there was nothing I could do about that. Anyway, he had kissed me several minutes before, so it wasn't too weird.
We were at the cave in about ten minutes, Fang called out, "A little help here guys."
There was a movement from the cave and Iggy came flying out, white wings making him look like a seagull. "Over here Ig," I called, then winced mentally at the pain in my throat.
Iggy turned and flew towards us. His face had a really odd expression on it. He looked really scared and really confused at the same time. "Max? Fang?" he called out.
"Help me lift up Max," Fang said, "She got hurt."
I was glad he had decided not to mention that I had fallen, which would have made me seem really klutzy, or that he had pushed me, which would have made him seem like a traitor. Which ya' know might be true.
"Max is hurt." Iggy stated. He seemed really spacey, like he had been just woken up from a nap or like he was really disoriented.
Then, I saw the blood in Iggy's white blond hair. I looked up a Fang and saw in an instant that he had seen it too. A sense of panic came through me. "Angel? Nudge? Gazzy? Total? Akila?" I called out, really loud, "Hey, where are you?"
Fang tensed up, really fast, me flew me to the cave, there he set me down on the edge. I glanced into the cave and saw that no one else was in it. There were some scuff marks in the dusty ground, but not much else. There was no sign anyone had been here.
Fang was now floating in the air by Iggy. A fierce look was in his eyes. "Where did the others go?" he asked.
"Was Max hurt when they came. Did they come for you too?" Iggy sounded way paniced. The blood on his hair was dripping down onto his shirt., leaving an ugly stain.
Then, Fang was next to Iggy, guiding him to the cave. He put his finger to his lips so that only I could see it. It meant, no noise.
"What do you mean?" Fang was a deadly quiet, "Where is the rest of the Flock?"
I stood up gingerly and walked around the cave, there, I had missed it. There was blood on the wall of the cave. In it was pale blond hair. "Iggy hit his head. He has a concussion," I muttered, "Fang, they came and got the others while we were…" I trailed off.
While Fang had attacked me, the others had been attacked and bird-kidnapped. What if Fang's job had been to distract me from the others? I had no choice but to consider this option.