Sage's POV

About a half hour and we'd finally managed to get those stupid rabbits.

"Let's get out of here!" I yelled to the others.

Gazzy, Nudge, and I all had about three rabbits in our arms, and they were heavy for me.

I could imagine how Gazzy and Nudge felt.

Good thing they weren't alive anymore.

I'd figured out why they called him the Gasman.

And probably not in the most pleasant way, either.

So the rabbits got to die a painless death, and I didn't have to crunch bones.

Win win situation…well not exactly cause the rabbits still had to die.

Oh well.

I could see the smoke of the fire from about a mile and a half away, and I could smell it within a mile from the cave.

I kind of staggered on my landing though.

"I'll take those," Max came over and took a rabbit from each of us.

I'll spare you the gory details, but we had an exceptionally nice meal.

"Ok. We're going to head south through New Mexico, then west toward Arizona. Everyone good? Bathroom breaks and appetites taken care of?"

There was a bunch of yeses and Fang tapped Iggy's hand.

One by one, we took off from about fifty feet away.

First Fang, then Nudge, Iggy, Gazzy, me, Angel, and finally Max went last.

I jumped off the ledge, letting the freefalling thrill me as the adrenaline surged.

I let myself drop thirty feet before unfurling my wings with a loud SNAP!

I felt myself being lifted when I did.

Flying was like no other thing I'd ever done.

Even though it was nothing new, the thrill of it never got old.

And just think if a plane crashed I'd be one of the lucky survivors.

Then I thought about Caleb,who hadn't been a lucky survivor.

I let a salty tear roll down my cheek, and wiped the rest away with the back of my hand.

Caleb would've loved this I thought.

He was the only sane person who I'd had contact with my whole life, besides the flock which I was apparently part of now.

Iggy's POV

We took to the skies and about four minutes into my flight, I felt water landing on my forehead and arms.

"Max, is it raining?"

"No, the sky is clear Iggy,"

I flew upward to where I could hear Sage's wings on the down stroke.

My wings brushed against hers a little.

"Sorry Iggy, I didn't mean to…"

She was crying.

Her voice wasn't steady.

I wiped away her tears with my thumb.

"Whatever's wrong, I promise it'll be okay,"

Wrong thing to say.

"No, Iggy it won't ever be okay. It has never been okay and it never will."

Okay I may not be the most observant person, its kind of impossible now, but there was definitely something wrong here.