All too soon our time of relaxation came to an end when Aiden announced “We need to get back down the mountain, it’ll be dark soon and we need to get back to our original location and get camp set up.” Releasing a deep breath I pull away from his embrace and call out for Lyric, once she comes down from the sky and lands on my shoulder I ask her “Can you take us back down the mountain beautiful?” Feeling a peck on my cheek I know that she is giving her agreement and then she flies away from me and increases her size again, this time when she picks me up I am not as scared as I was the first time. While gripped in her talons I can’t help but feel that this trip seems to be taking longer than the one to get up the mountain but when we land I realize why it took longer, not only did Lyric an

