Sorry || A Qinter Fanfic || Chapter Three || Wings of Fire

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YEESH THIS IS RUSHED ----------------------------------------------------------------------------*** Qibli went into his cave later after the scavenger fiasco. Winter had decided to go hunt to calm himself leaving but honestly, what if Winter was mad at him? Qibli decided to ignore that. By the time Winter got back, his eyelids were so droopy that he could swear that it was touching the ground. “Go to bed, sand - snorter! Were you waiting for me?” Winter huffed haughtily. He marched over the sleeping ledge behind Qibli and plonked himself on it indignantly. “I’m sorry, I didn’t know that it would escape like that! Anyways, you don’t have to be an iceberg - sucker over it! It’s safe and sound! IN A CAGE!” Qibli gushed out. He’d been wanting to say that for hours. Winter looked deeply ruffled and laughed. “Yes, and he smells like mango now!” he said, to Qibli’s surprise. Did I finally get him to like me? Maybe he’s being sarcastic… no… when Cobra was sarcastic, she never laughed that way. He’s genuinely forgiving me. Maybe this is what Sunny was so excited about? Other dragons acknowledging the fact that yes, you aren’t just a SandWing, but something more? The Outclaws were the only ones who felt that way about me. Maybe this haughty IceWing is what I need to prove to everyone that I’m actually really great and likable and… loveable? ~~~ The next morning, Qibli woke up to see Winter pacing the length of the cave. He yawned loudly and the IceWing looked his way. “Come ON Qibli! We have class!” he said, meeting Qibli’s eyes. “T - There’s a rule where you have to um - bring your clawmate with you.” Qibli had never seen the IceWing stutter before, was he nervous or something? He got up off his ledge and followed Winter down the hall into the history cave to meet his winglet. There was a RainWing named Kinkajou and a SeaWing named Turtle if Qibli could remember right, and the quarreling SkyWing named Carnelian and a MudWing named Umber. And - a NightWing named Moonwatcher… Winter took in a deep inhale and mustered a polite “hello” and Qibli did the same. Honestly, he thought that they were in a different winglet, wasn’t this the Jade Winglet? He thought they were in the Silver Winglet. Tsunami entered the classroom looking brightly at her students. “Hello Moonwatcher, Kinkajou, Turtle, Qibli, Winter, Carnelian and Umber,” she said, “Oh be impressed, I’m memorizing thirty - five new names! Easy as cows for Starflight but a lot harder for Clay and I. It helps that I knew some of you already though! Like Kinkajou and Qibli!” Turtle shot Tsunami a look that probably meant something along the lines of Hello? What about me? Tsunami caught the look and snorted. “And Turtle of course! My brother! Or my three millionth brother or something!” She replied hurriedly. “Anyways, Winter, Qibli, you may be wondering why you are in the Jade Winglet instead of the Silver Winglet, but we decided to switch some of you around after yesterday’s scavenger situation. Besides, I think you’d all work well together!” Winter raised his talon politely and Tsunami nodded his way. “So you are the head of school right? Meaning I should talk to you about my sister wanting a private cave?” Tsunami looked deeply disgruntled. “Yes I am and no she won’t. The whole point of this school is for dragons of different tribes to interact with each other. So no private caves for now.” Winter looked worried, like telling his sister that might force her to stab him in the snout. Qibli walked over to Winter’s side and put a wing around him. “Hey, you didn’t mean that you wanted to leave me did you?” he asked. Winter shook his head slightly and then looked up as Tsunami stated instructions. “O - Kay so we are going to do this ice - breaker thing (bad pun sorry Winter) and you are going to state your name and a bit about you, Turtle, you go first.” she said, sending Turtle a nod. “Oh um… hi, I’m Turtle, my mom is the queen of SeaWings and Tsunami is my sister and I have two other sisters and thirty - one brothers… um… my favorite color is blue?” he said nervously. Kinkajou went next, “I’m Kinkajou! I’m Queen Glory’s BESTest friend and I like sloths and my friends Moon and Tamarin and my favorite color is yellow!” Carnelian snorted and muttered something like ‘obviously’ and Kinkajou shot her a glare she didn’t receive. (continued below)