“Ceng?” Teska called out tentatively. She had her arms around the
crystal dragon’s neck in such a tight hold that people on the ground
were wondering just how he managed to fly. Maybe he had something like
gills somewhere, and was breathing through something other than his
nose? As the air dragon flexed his wings, falling into a sharp dip and
coming back up, the long, strangled scream was enough to wake those who
had tried to sleep in on such a beautiful morning. Later she would say
that she had been doing it on purpose, that she had wanted to wake
everyone up so that they didn’t waste the day. Right now… now she was
too scared to look anywhere.
Although there was something about flying with your eyes closed that
made it worse…
‘Hey, Teska. You can open your eyes now.’ Ceng was going through
something most people would call puberty, right smack into teenagehood
and so his voice had started to crack, occasionally showing the
undertones of the darker, more melodramatic male adult he would become.
Which was why Teska snorted.
“Are you crazy? I know we’re still flying. There is no way I’m opening
my eyes!” she said this with such adamantness that the adolescent
snickered.
‘You’re the one who said, why don’t you take me flying? I’d love to
fly. I want to know what it’s like. I’m jealous you can fly with your
beautiful wings.’
“I did not say the last one.’ The thing was, Teska’s fear was
ridiculous. She could fly on her own, and she wasn’t scared of falling
to hr death because she could always float away from such a gruesome
ending. But there was something too naked about riding on the back of a
dragon, something too in your face, as if she was losing everything
that could keep her stable. How did humans do it? She was going to have
to congratulate those riders…
‘And you want to be a flight co-ordinator.’ Ceng said.
Teska’s grip tightened. “Shut up and tell me when we’re landing.” She
said.
The
Isle of Mirrors
Name: Ceng
Age: Adolescent
Gender: Male
Color: Crystal
Type: Air
Clutch: Thirteen
Breath Weapons: n/a
Parents: Chaos + Pandemonium
Layout from Akutenshi
