She took a step back and dropped the note. She slowly grew more angry with each second that passed, all of it directed to Wasp. Radiant then shook her head, regaining her composure, and took the note.

"I'm sorry, Locust. I'm not letting you die." she said to the note. She ran downstairs and spotted her food basket. She grabbed the entire thing and took a piece of kale from her basket to gnaw on. She walked up the stairs to the balcony and took a deep breath. She saw Wasp Hive in the distance, giving her a boost of motivation.

"Home, here I come." she whispered to herself as she opened her wings to fly. She flapped them and raised herself into the air, overlooking the savanna and began to fly to Wasp Hive. While flying, she was plagued with thoughts of what was happening to Locust. She hated thinking of what he-- no, Wasp was doing with him. She contemplated a few times on if this was the right thing. He was just another dumb HiveWing, but he was a likeable dumb HiveWing in Radiant's eyes. She sometimes broke away from her thoughts to stare at the beautiful land. She saw herds of elephants scattered across the ground with zebras being chased by the occasional lioness. The treeless wasteland was both mesmerizing and haunting to her. With each wing beat her determination to save Locust grew stronger and stronger. She contemplated the idea of finding Wasp and pounding the honey out of her, but realized she'd probably have all of Pantala on her side. While flying, she was haunted by the question she had yet to understand.

"Why?"

There was no reason for why Wasp would round up all of the dragons and take them to Wasp Hive. If she got all of a sudden paranoid, that would make sense, but what would she paranoid about? The burning of Bloodworm Hive, perhaps... She began to feel tired and saw the sun far in the distance setting. She flew down beside a few zebras and set up camp.

"Ughh.. Why didn't I bring a blanket?" she questioned herself. Radiant pressed herself against the dry grass and groaned. A nearby zebra walked over to her and sniffed her antennae a bit, causing them to retreat backwards.

"Go on, get." she whispered, poking the Zebra with her horns gently. The zebra snorted, as if to say "Gee, thanks for being so nice to me." and walked off to join it's family. Radiant snorted, blowing some hay off of her snout, and closed her eyes drifting off to sleep.

The next morning, Radiant woke up to a rumbling stomach. She reached into her basket for food, only to find scraps.

"Those stupid zebras!" Radiant cursed. She groaned and stoked her stomach, trying to make herself feel better. She spotted a Hive in the distance, however. If this Hive was as empty as the other Hives, perhaps Radiant could raid it and get some food. She struggled to her feet, and lifted herself into the air. The musty smell of savanna was getting old to Radiant and she just wanted to get this nightmare over with. She flew for a half an hour before reaching the Hive. The Hive had a faint orange hue to the treestuff that was built from it. She landed on the Hive to hear no sound, absolutely nothing at all.

"Abandoned like usual, good." Radiant smirked. She walked around the empty Hive, checking in small dorms and houses until coming to the center of the Hive. Instead of a bazaar being there, the Hive's palace was there. "That's quite bizarre. Heh, 'bazaar'." Radiant chuckled to herself. She checked the doors, noticing they were unlocked.

"How convenient of them to leave the doors unlocked." She grinned. She walked inside to see a massive hall of orange and yellow stripes. She saw the throne in front of her and a room off to the right side. Radiant could practically smell the foliage coming from that room. She walked over to it, feeling happy as can be and excited to eat some quality food. She saw the inside and found herself in a greenhouse connected to the room. On the front it said "TSETSE HIVE GREENHOUSE" and inside was rows upon rows of vegetables and grain. Streams of water flowed through the greenhouse and Radiant took a deep breath before going to pick some food. Suddenly, she heard a small yelp noise from the other side of the greenhouse. It scared her slightly, as she thought she was alone this entire time. Across a few hedges of vegetables, two white lines were moving hypnotically before curling up.

"Listen, SilkWing. Get up before I make you." Radiant snarled. The creature lifted it's head to reveal a sapphire blue and white SilkWing. It stood up slowly and cocked it's head to its side.

"I didn't know any other dragons were left behind--"

"Listen, just let me get the food and I'll get out of your scales. I don't need any more trouble." Radiant groaned. She yanked a chunk of yam out of the ground and the SilkWing screamed.

"Oh, no-no-no.. That's for the mister and mistress. I get the stuff over there. You could have some if you want." The blue SilkWing pointed to a disturbingly dank and dark pile of rotting food in the corner of the room.

"Yeah, no thanks. I'll stick with this."

"But you CAN'T! The mister and mistress will get mad if you do!"

"Oh my Clearsight," Radiant groaned. "They. Aren't. Here. I do not care if you are stuck with that disgusting pile over there. I'm taking the stuff and leaving." she yelled. Radiant yanked the rest of the yam out of the ground and began to walk over. Suddenly, she was toppled over by a force ramming into her side.

"You must not steal from the greenhouse." The SilkWing lectured, snatching the yams out of Radiant's talons and placing them back.

"Hey! I was going to eat those!"

"Stealing is wrong, you shouldn't steal from the mister and--"

"Who even are these dragons?!" Radiant roared, causing the SilkWing to flinch.

"You-- you don't know who they are?"

"Is it Tsetse or something?"

"Oh, no-no-no. Tsetse lives on that side," the SilkWing ushered her tail over to the left side.

"Okay... Then who are they?" Radiant asked. The SilkWing groaned and lifted up her front left arm. On the white scales was a nasty and ugly scar in the shape of a cricket, looking like it was burned into the dragon's scales a long time ago. Radiant held back her shock and awaited for the SilkWing to respond.

"Duchess Paralyze and Duke Cosmophasis." the SilkWing said cheerfully.

"Ugh!.. Did they like.. Brand their mark into your scales?" The SilkWing nodded. "How can you be so calm about this?"

"My name is Adonis. What's yours?" the SilkWing asked, ignoring the question. Radiant looked behind herself and looked back at Adonis in disarray.

"You know, I'll just leave." Radiant said. She walked out of the door, trying to escape from that SilkWing. She ran outside the palace and caught her breath to think. So, Locust's parent's are kooky, crazy, and treat their SilkWings like garbage. Thank Clearsight I got the normal one in the bunch. she thought to herself. She began to think more and more of what she could do before getting interrupted by the sound of a high pitched voice.

"You're leaving already?" Adonis asked.

"Yes, I am. And I would like it if you didn't follow me."

"But, there's nobody here."

"Yes, there isn't. Don't tell me you just realized that." Radiant snapped. Adonis stayed silent, as if what Radiant said was correct.

"I want to come with you." Adonis said bluntly.

"Aww, thanks... No." Radiant said and began to walk away.

"HEY! HEY! Please! Can I just come with you? It's so lonely in the palace--"

"Then leave."

"I will, with you."

"I literally just met you a few minutes ago and now you're trusting me enough to follow me to Wasp Hive?"

"You're going to Wasp Hive?" Adonis asked. Radiant groaned and lifted herself in the air.

"Thanks for being a waste of time for me." Radiant yelled. She turned away from Tsetse Hive and began to fly towards Yellow Jacket Hive. All of a sudden, she heard a voice from behind her.

"Why are you going to Wasp Hive?" Adonis asked.

"DID I NOT JUST ASK YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE?!"

"Yes."

"THEN WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING?!"

"Because I want to come with you. You seem fun." Adonis perked. Her wings were flapping uncomfortably, as if she hasn't flown in months.

Radiant sighed. "Fine! You can come with me, but if things get rough, I'm leaving you behind."

"Wait, really?"

"Do you want me to knock you out of the sky right now?"

"No, not really."

"Alright, cool." Adonis and Radiant flew the rest of the way to Yellow Jacket Hive in silence.