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As I fell, as the wared creature in the flahts

I shuddered violently - but kept my eyes closed as I continued to pluer now, I could feel it, but I hadn’t yet fully transfor of eand faith were all part of this process

I continued to fall, knowingI also knew that the speed of ent on the circumstance A shorter drop would result in a faster transforating, feel reater than it was before Denser, heavier My awareness of my own body expanded instinctively, exponentially

I was no longer what I was

No, I was soreater

My wings snapped taut, catching the air,the air, and noasn’t so

I opened as Strip, in all of its glittering, neon, sinful glory I flappedaltitude Instinctively

Keeping to the shadows in a city that never sleeps and never turns off was no easy task And so I took it up another hundred feet or so, flappinghot drafts of sinful air Yes, the arm and dry and not very different froe in a few o from temperate to nuclear

Too hot for even the undead

I flappedcity I circled once around the superheated laser bea north over a cluster of world-faio with its intricate fountains, the Paris and its Eiffel Tower replica, the Mirage and its gardens, Treasure Island with its pirate ship

And one flying monster I wondered idly if the Excalibur needed a real-life dragon It could supplementinto the sky and scattering like frightened rabbits before a hawk’s shadow That was a good thing, I guess