“Great,” Thalia murmurs while
floating atop a white fabric strip. She
must’ve taken one from one of the biomancers.
“We’ve trashed another vehicle, now how are we going to get there?”
“I’ve still got a way,” Chaud says
as his mechanical suit removes from his body and transforms into a motorcycle
setting next to him.
“I can follow on his shadow,” hisses
Ravager.
“I can carry the rest,” Tilk
offers.
Tilk changes into his dragon form
and I immediately climb on and hold on to his neck. I am scared for my hands touching him, but
with each movement up his body my drain seems to have no effect. It is nice to be able to touch someone and
not absorb their life energy. Eva and
Thalia climb up behind me and we begin to head on towards the dragon base. I have never ridden a dragon ever before and
the experience was amazing. Holding on
to the large strong neck as air pushes against me with each movement. I have an intense urge to just rest myself
against Tilk and savor in every aspect of this moment, but I push it back
somewhere deep inside of me. I think
about maybe pushing Thalia off instead, maybe that would make me feel more at
ease to enjoy this moment. I am still
not quite at ease with her since I was captured by Sophie, like somewhere
Thalia is connected to Sophie and therefore to blame.
As we fly closer we can see a
pillar in the center of an open field.
Following the pillar up toward the sky, we can see what almost appears
to be a city floating above us. If we
could get to any of the pipes that lead up in to the city, we could crawl in
through there. I look down and can see
Chaud and Ravager near the base pillar working their way up to the city. I think Tilk understands the plan to get us
in through a pipe because he takes us toward the base of the city right under
one of the pipes. Eva climbs in first
and I follow right behind her. I help to
pull Thalia up as quickly as possible and then turn to aid Tilk enter in
whatever way I can. I watch as he
transforms, worried that he is going to drop to the ground below but he
doesn’t. He simply flies to the pipe
with us, his dragon wings out and carrying him to the pipe.
We make our way up the pipe and enter
quietly inside a familiar looking building.
We will help Tilk free the dragons; no one should have to remain captive
against their will. We silently make our
way across the room and enter the elevator in this building to slowly carry us
to where we need to be. As the elevator
door opens, it almost looks as though we are on the top floor; there is a long
hallway in front of us with six cages on each side of the hall. We can see clearly into the cages, dragons
with the circlet atop the crown of their heads in each cage. The cages seem to have an open back for an
easy mount to fly off to wherever from within the caging.
“Kill them all,” Tilk hisses.
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