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Turtle's PoV

Turtle yelped as Peril slammed into him. He braced himself, getting ready for the burning to begin, but then he remembered his hard-as-dimond scales. He wrinkled his snout at Peril, who sat up and rubbed her head. Her eyes widened as she realized that she had slammed into Turtle, and widened even more as she started to panic about her firescales, then he saw Peril relax as she too remembered about his invincible scales. 

There was a moment of silence as Peril processed it all, and then she flared her wings open, put on a scary face, and growled, "Where were you?"

Turtle shrunk back, startled at the sudden change of demeanor , "Uhh...hiding? Because there were dragons who wanted to kill me? And I was being safe?"

"Well, why did you come here?" Peril demanded, "And why,  in all the moons, did you have to take a nap right on my landing spot?"

"Uh, I was bored of being alone on a desert island, and I was tired and sore, thank you very much." Turtle retorted.

A loud squeal stopped their mini-argument as they both looked toward Kinkajou, who was all pink and was barreling towards Turtle at a very high speed.

Turtled's eyes widened as he saw Kinkajou's collision course, and started to scramble away, but was knocked off his talons as the pink Rainwing slammed into him.

Oh, fishwings and salmon turds, Turtle thought, either they're ready to fry me where I stand or they attack me. There's no winning here!

Kinkajou sat up, winded from her unchecked speed, "TURTLE! Where were you?"

"Like I said to Peril, I was being safe. Where no angry dragons were trying to murder me." Turtle said.

"Well, I'm glad you came!" Kinkajou squeaked, "It's been just Peril and me since Moon and Winter left!"

"Wait, they left?" Turtle asked, incredulous as to why someone would leave the safety that comes in numbers--that and the very effective bodyguard that Peril was. When she wasn't trying to kill you, that is.

"Winter got upset and flew away." Peril said, "Moon went after him to bring him back when he didn't show up for a while. We haven't seen either of them since."

Turtle shivered a bit at the ominous tone of Peril's voice, "Well, seeing as you are down a tough IceWing and a smart NightWing, would you welcome an animus SeaWing?" He held up his foreleg, where his little bag of animus-touched trinkets jingled.

"We'd let you stay even if you weren't an animus!" Kinkajou flapped her wings indignantly and rolled off Turtle, "You're part of our Winglet! Well, you're in my Winglet and you're Peril's friend."

Peril shifted, "To you think that we can go inside now? I'm not really one for standing outside where dragons could spot us."

As she marched away, Turtle started to follow her, but Kinkajou pulled him aside, "I need to talk to you." she whispered.

"About what?" Turtle questioned, wary.

"Peril." Kinkajou glanced in her direction, "She's been flying around at night."

"Maybe she just wants some fresh air," Turtle suggested, "I doubt that she's used to staying cooped up all the time."

Kinkajou shook her head, "No. She denies flying out at all. I think..." She glanced in Peril's direction again, "I think she's flying out to meet someone. She keeps mumbling about the full moon and the SkyWing mountains in her sleep."

Turtle stepped back, processing, "And what do you want me to do with this information?"

"Just be carful around her, Turtle" Kinkajou said, "If you say anything important to her, I think that she might tell whoever she's meeting about it."

Before Turtle could say anything, Kinkajou hopped away, flapping her wings, "Come on!" She yelled gleefully, her demeanor changing so quickly, Turtle almost thought he had imagined what she had just told him.

As Turtle entered the cave, he made eye contact with Peril, and he felt a shiver down his spine and a flash of fear.

Was Peril for their cause, or against it?