That’s a longer flight. He told her plainly. His breath was steady again in the clearer air, but the burn in his shoulders was already beginning to build. This form was powerful, certainly, but it was not meant for transport. I can carry you part of the way. Not all of it.
The sea swelled beneath them but Noah lifted his eyes to the distant suggestion of greener land. He could feel her curiosity simmering beneath her earlier frustration. It brushed him like sunlight through leaves, the feelings just small touches of something different across the attuned bond. He banked them toward a broad outcropping where the wind ran clean. The smoke was all behind them at this point.
His wings pushed harder for a few strokes, the coastline shrinking behind them as he committed to the plan, taking Nova as far as he could in this form.
FIN
The sea swelled beneath them but Noah lifted his eyes to the distant suggestion of greener land. He could feel her curiosity simmering beneath her earlier frustration. It brushed him like sunlight through leaves, the feelings just small touches of something different across the attuned bond. He banked them toward a broad outcropping where the wind ran clean. The smoke was all behind them at this point.
His wings pushed harder for a few strokes, the coastline shrinking behind them as he committed to the plan, taking Nova as far as he could in this form.
FIN
noah
you touched my heavy heart and made it light
