COLBY POV CONTINUED.... I free fell through the open sky, Jarek's survival instincts ricocheting in my mind - trying to figure out any way out of this as the very solid looking ground drew ever near. I couldn't even sense him before Eris snatched me out of thin air, his talons slicing my suit jacket open with barely any force. He tossed me upwards lightly with a flick of his wrist...and seconds later I was flat on my back on the safety of his hardened scales protecting his spine. Serafina shifted from her seated position to prop her foot against the spikey horn nearest my head. She had a dagger in her hand and was cutting off chunks of a strangely colored apple. As I looked up at her from my very embarrassing position, I couldn’t help but admire how effortlessly cool she was. She was

