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Our footsteps clattered down the stone hallway, intermingling with the sound of Mhyr’s screams. No one spoke. Up ahead were the big double doors through which we had entered. I wanted to run and shove the doors open, then leap into the sky and spread my wings as wide as I could, and just fly. Just take to the air and stretch. I wanted to feel like I had all those weeks ago, was it only weeks, when I had first brought my wings together at my back. I missed the sky. I wanted to fly.
"I'll get these, gentlemen,” I said and closed the short distance between us and the exit.
I threw open the doors, where the open sky should have been, where the steep drop of the cliff face had been only an hour before, there was now a tropical jungle.
"I guess we’re meeting the trees now,” Royal sai
