Page 56 of Whispered Warnings: Part Two

“Yes, of course. I will do what I can, but I don’t fly, so it’s only a suggestion and might not work.” I explain, I don’t want him to build up false expectations.

“That’s okay,” he replies with a smile.

“Well, alright then,” I grin, “show me what you’re doing, and I’ll see if I can help.”

He nods and shifts before running and launching himself into the air, he glances down to make sure that I’m watching and when I nod, he does the move for me.

I frown, something is off, but I can’t quite tell what.

“Can you do it again for me?” I shout up to him, and he nods.

This time I see it, and I nod that I know how to help him, and he flies back down, shifting midair and landing on his feet with such ease that I am momentarily in awe.

When he stares at me expectantly, I chuckle, “Sorry, that was really cool.”

My unexpected reply makes him laugh, and replies, “Thanks. Do you know how I could improve?”

I nod, “Yeah, you’ve actually got a couple of problems, but it should be really easy to fix. Your first is your tail, it’s creating drag and slowing the rest of the movements down, so it is having a knock-on effect and making you wobbly. If you tuck it in more, you should be able to fix that.”

His eyes widen, “Shit, of course. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that, thank you. What is the second thing?”

I hesitate slightly, I’m not sure how he’s going to take my next words, but he asked me for my help so that’s what I’ll give him.

“Even if you fix the tail, you are still not going to be able to execute it properly until you lose the fear,” I say, and he tenses, “I’m guessing that something happened fairly recently?”

His eyes widen in shock, but he nods, looking away and slightly embarrassed as he replies to me, “Yeah, well, it was a few months ago now.”

I nod, “I thought so. Fear is good,” I start, and he glances up at me in surprise, I smile, “it is, fear is good so long as you don’t let it control you. If you want to nail this move, don’t let the fear control you.”

Determination fills his expression, and he nods sharply once before he shifts and launches himself into the air. He goes straight into the move, letting go of the fear and tucking his tail. He’s done it perfectly.

When he drops back down and shifts, his smile is huge, and the tension in his body is gone.

“I did it,” he grins.

I nod. “Yep, I didn’t doubt you for a second.”

“Thank you so much,” he adds.

I smile proudly, emotions swirling in me as I nod and smile, watching him launch himself back into the air. I actually helped someone. My advice helped someone, two people actually.

I’m pretty fucking proud of that.

“I don’t know how you did that, but thank you,” Griff says as he lands next to me, and I have to stop myself from leaning into him. “He had a really bad fall on a job, and he’s been hesitating ever since. He’s one of my best fliers, and honestly, today is the first time that I have seen him properly smile for a while.”

I grin, “I’m not going to lie, I feel really good that I could help him. He just needed to not let the fear control him. I have had to tell myself that plenty of times, it’s pretty easy to tell when it’s holding someone else back.”

Griff nods, “It’s impressive. You helped Yaz with her flight, too.” He glances down at me curiously, “How do you know how to help them fly?”

I grin, “You know I said that the dragon keep was one of my favorite places to be?” he nods, so I continue, “I wasn’t kidding. I spent hours and hours watching them do flight training, and I picked up a few things. I actually became friends with their flight instructor. He was one of the youngest dragons ever to achieve the status that he did; he was amazing.”

“Was?” Griff asks curiously.

I shrug, a soft kind of sadness flowing through me, “Yeah, I haven’t seen him for a few years, actually. I was never there when he was visiting, and then Draith said he got pulled away and was really busy. He became a SID agent, actually.”

“Oh, what’s his name?” Griff asks.

“Sorry to interrupt, I was wondering if you could help me with a sequence that I’m struggling with?” a guy asks, interrupting the conversation.

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