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I woke to a light breeze playing around my face. I smiled, and inhaled, raising my arms. Wait. Raising my arms? I snapped open my arms, to find my wings, now a slightly more solid silvery colour, flecked with gold and rose-gold, like paint. I inhaled sharply, stepping backwards to get away from the edge. Little did I know, I was standing on a corner of the balcony. My scream was sucked away with the rushing wind as I fell. On instinct, I snapped open my wings fully, catching the wind before I became an unfortunate speck on the footpath below. I desperately flapped my 14ft wings, and rose with unexpected speed. I managed to awkwardly touch down on top of a water tank on a building. I rolled, and came to a stop near the edge. I rubbed my head. I had no idea where I was, or where Fang's house was. I looked down, panicked tears starting to rise. I felt in my pocket for my lighter, but finding a black feather. I spun it. I could do this, I could find him. I closed my eyes, concentrating on the feather I was holding. I suddenly leapt up, surprising myself, and threw myself off the tank, snapping open my wings. I flapped hard to get above the clouds, awkwardly rising and falling a couple feet with each stroke. I don't know how I knew where he was. I just did.

After a long, excruciating 4 hours of flying, I began to drop out of the sky, too tired to carry on. I tucked in my wings, and let the panic of free-fall wake me up. Adrenalin pumped through my veins, and I powered on. I began to see figures through the mist of the clouds. I smiled as I heard Fang's faint voice. I closed my eyes, as pure fatigue threatened at the edge of my consciousness. I began to drop rapidly, only saving myself with scattered, exhausted flaps. "Fang.." I said, my voice hoarse. Happiness flooded my brain as he turned towards me, shocked to see me. I saw my wings illuminate the darkening sky around me, and my eyes felt warm inside my skull. He ran to catch me as I folded my wings in defeat. I plopped, none-too-delicately into his arms, smiling like an idiot. "Hayyyy.." I slurred, looking into the faces of 6 surprised and shocked strangers before drifting into blackness.

"You can't just leave us and show up! You could have been dead for all we knew!" a voice yelled distantly. I groaned and sat up. I found myself looking into the faces of two kids and a guy about my age. "She's awake!" the boy said, big, round blue eyes blinking down at me. "Hi! You have wings. That's pretty weird, cause we have wings too! You look the same age as Iggy and Max and Fang. Are you? I know you already know Fang, but how did you find the rest of us? And why are your wings like that? They're pretty cool, but I don't really see how they'd work, seeing how they'-" the girl with chocolate skin and brown eyes babbled on, until she was cut off by the guy my age. His pale eyes were looking distant and weren't looking at me. I frowned and got to my feet.

"I'm Lau..I'm Spark. I'm assuming you're the Flock," I said, holding out a hand to the girl. She took it and shook, a little too fast. "I'm Nudge, this is Gazzy and this is Iggy!" she told me, and I stuck out my hand for Iggy to shake. "Hi," he smiled, gazing past my shoulder. "Silly! He's blind!" Nudge laughed, and took Iggy's hand and met it to mine. He shook it and smiled again. My head come below his shoulder, he was as tall, if not taller than Fang. Speaking of which…
"Fang is in the dining room with Max," a sweet, innocent looking girl informed me. I smiled gratefully.

The little girl frowned at me. I opened my mouth to question her, but Gazzy interrupted me. "You might want to wait till someone comes back in, things could get messy if you went to meet Max right now," he said, nodding at the yelling coming from the next room. I nodded. I looked around. I was in a trendy, modern penthouse, perched almost directly over a waterfall. I gasped as I looked out the open window, my nose getting drizzled with droplets from the waterfall. "It's beautiful here. Where are we?" I asked, looking at the remaining flock members.

"I thought you'd know, since you found us here?" Gazzy inquired, looking sceptically at me. I shrugged. I just kinda…followed my instincts here."
"We're in New Zealand," Iggy said, looking in my general direction.
I smiled. I flew here from New York! I swelled with pride at my own physical strength and stamina. "Angel, will Max be mad at me?" I asked her, sitting on a windowsill, enjoying the sunshine. Everyone in the room started at me. "What?" I asked, alarmed.
"We never told you her name," Iggy said, looking suspicious. I shrugged. "I just picked it up. From you guys. Like, your heads." That earned a shocked gasp from Nudge.

"That's why I can't hear your thoughts!" Angel said, looking happy. "You're a physic, like me!"
I shook my head. "No, I just feel emotion and sometimes thoughts linked with emotion. Sometimes my thoughts push into people's heads, too."
They all just nodded like it was the norm. Fang chose to walk in, followed by who I assume was Max, and a strangely perfect looking boy.