Chapter 43
Warm purple mist embraced my new form as I struggled to acclimatise. Shrugging off my old form like a worn pair of jeans, I floundered a little as I tried to remember how to operate my limbs. This was nothing like travelling bodiless. This was another realm altogether and my body was solid and real and so was the ground, and so how I moved mattered. Different gravity—no worries. I couldn’t see a thing through the mist, so I started to walk and then kangaroo hop like they did on the moon. Not bad, but also not enough. I needed to get above the fog and see what was going on. With that thought, something behind me quivered, and a pair of wings unfurled, large enough that they dragged on the ground until I figured out how to raise them. As soon as I did, a second pair unfolded, wra
