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Korlat closed her hand over his, trapping the objects within their joined clasp She led him down the first row of tents

The Mhybe dreae of a precipice, white-knuckled hands gripping gnarled roots, the susurration of trickling dirt dusting her face as she strained to hold on

Beloaited the Abyss, racked with the store, jealousy and dark desires That stor up for her, and she was helpless to defend herself

Her ar rapped around her legs, yanked, snatched her away, and she was falling, adding her own scream to the cacophony The winds tossed her this way and that, twisting, tu hard and vicious struck her hip, glanced away Air buffeted her hard Then the hard intrusion was back -- talons closing around her waist, scaled, cold as death A sharp tug snapped her head back, and she was no longer falling, but rising, carried higher and higher

The storm’s roar faded below her, then dwindled away to one side

The Mhybe twisted her head, looked up

An undead dragon looe Desiccated, dried flaps of skin trailing fro, the creature was bearing her away

She turned to study what lay below

A featureless plain stretched out beneath her, dun brown Long cracks in the earth were visible, filled with dully glowing ice She saw a darker patch, ragged at its edges, flow over a hillside A herd I have walked that land before Here, in on banked suddenly, crooked its wings, and began a swift spiral earthward

She found herself wailing -- was shocked to realize that it was not terror she was feeling, but exhilaration Spirits above, this is what it is to fly! Ah, now I know envy in truth!

The land rushed up to meet her Moon’s wings snapped wide, caught the air, then, the leg directly above curling upward to join its twin, the creature glided silently an arround Forwardher

She landed with barely a thump, rolled onto her back, then sat up to watch the enor