Aurora's Pov
The wings of Jewel began to stretch to life as I gave her instructions.
"We're gonna go very easy today, got it?" I asked her.
Mmmrrrr. Was all I got as a reply.
I managed to strap her harnesses in all the right places and took my seat on her back. I rubbed my hand on her side in soothing circles to calm her, Dylan did that sometimes.
"Alright, Aurora, deep breaths." I spoke to myself. "You can do this, nice and easy."
As gently as possible, I tapped my heels at her sides and she reacted immediately to my surprise.
Slowly and steadily, she matched her speed to mine and opened up her wide-spanned wings.
"Let's go!"
She took off into a short sprint and with a single, well executed flap of her wings we were airborne.
Effortlessly gliding through and through, higher and
