WINGED FEET

CHAPTER 2

Disclaimer: If I owned anything from Valdemar, I would be making a book out of this. But I don't so since this disclaimer is here, nobody can get my hard-earned money.

Author's Note: I am going to refer to them with real names and made up names. Mira – Evergreen Kevin – Fireblade Nathan – Scroll Tarina – Seamist

Hope this helps.

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It was pretty simple how we met. Both Kevin and I were in the same year group and sometimes in the same class. Our Companions liked each other as friends and we sort of had no choice. It helped that we loved pranks and had many other things in common. I had, a few weeks earlier, chased off the Blues that were bullying Mira. I can still see myself standing with a dagger behind them and asking in a dangerous voice, "Just what do you think you are doing with my friend?"

Well, I stopped them from bullying her and she became my best friend. I eventually met with Nathan, who wanted to compose a song about a Companion's ride but did not have any inspiration. Kevin took him riding. His song, called "The Wild Ride" is still very popular but not close to the real thing.

The first time we met was in …… a classroom. You would expect us to meet somewhere else for the first time. But that was how it was. Actually, this classroom didn't have enough chairs and tables so all four of us had to use the same table. During that class, we discovered that all of us were bored with nothing happening at the Collegium and loved to play pranks. We decided to meet at the stables after class.

A few candlemarks and a boring lecture later, we met at the Companions stable. Kevin and I were the first ones there due to the fact that we had had the same class before. All of us made ourselves comfortable in the shade, with our two Companions next to us. We quickly agreed that we should do something to enliven the Collegium. Then Mira had a great idea.

"Why don't we start our own prankster group with different names. We can prank the queen or other teachers?" Mira suggested with a spark of excitement in her eyes. Everybody was excited to start.

But Nathan, being practical, asked, "What are we going to name ourselves?"

"Tarina, be Seamist. You are always so calm, even when the Blues tease you!" Mira told me. I thought about that ~Not a bad idea.~

"I'll accept if you're Evergreen. I like that name and with your Gift and uniform, it fits you."

Nathan and Kevin soon became Scroll and Fireblade. One more obstacle: what our group should be called. It was the Companions who suggested that we become the Winged Feet, who would never be caught. If we had to announce something in public, we wore masks and blue uniforms to disguise our identity until our training was over.