I walked over to the water and bent down to splash my face, and then I cupped my hands to take a drink. Mary was swimming around me as I did this, softly humming to some unknown melody that was both beautiful and alluring at the same.I turned my face to look into Mary's stone eyes as I listened to the song she was humming. I felt myself being drawn into Mary like there was some unseen force that was pulling me closer, then I got a rough smack upside my head.It didn't hurt, but I was knocked ass over tea kettle from the impact of Jilly's big hand in my squatting position. As I slowly picked myself up, I realized something, I did not have time to be messing around like this right now!"Come here! What did I just tell you!" Jilly shouted as she came over to the water edge and dove in after Mary.Or, that's what had assumed was happening, but only the female half of Jilly went in. Her red-plated centipede body stayed up, and soon it reared up, pulling Jilly

"Now, Jilly is not going to like this, but she won't tell you exactly what happened either. So, I will tell you the story of two proud women, who are both terrible losers," Fireden said, and Jilly was gripping my shoulder as hard as the System would let her. The wave of heat that came off Fireden felt like they would melt my skin from my body. I wasn't sure what this was doing, but I just remembered feeling lighter and faster after I was done. "One year ago, Jilly was living down in the crater with me and the rest of the Fire denizens of the crater. During that time, Lizy had arrived, and the two had become fast friends, but that only lasted until Jilly had offered Lizy a friendly bet," Fireden explained, but Jilly's face poked over my shoulder and I could feel her heartbeat racing on my back. "That bitch cheated, and you know it! You know what she did wasn't right! That was my home!" Jilly shouted, but her tone was stra

With my eyes closed now, I could feel the different copies of Windorf, but only one of them was the real one. Now with my eyes closed, I was quickly able to lock on to him, and with this new sense, I could keep my eyes closed.I waited, and I assumed that Windorf was attacking me right away after my comment, but the windbag was made of more potent stuff, it seemed. Regardless I would just have to wait, this was probably one of his tactics to catch me off guard, but I was surprised when I felt him slow down until he stopped moving altogether."That is all," Windorf said, and I opened my eyes, but at the exact moment, all traces of him had disappeared.I turned back and walked back over to the girls where we were all waiting, but then I remembered something and wanted to kick myself."Mary, can you please get down for a moment," I asked Marry, and she listened to me, and then I turned back to the clearing and yelled. "Hey! Come back, that wasn't fair, and I

"I needed to bring you here this way because you don't know a lot of things that are going on right now. Mex and the others can not know you are here and do not. To them, you just disappeared, but after we are done here, we will drop you out of the sky, and Mex will catch you," Nixi said plainly after quickly grabbing her tea."What? No, I am not getting dropped out of the sky! Why is this a good idea?! I am just going to walk out that…." I started to say, but then I looked around for the door, and it wasn't there."There is no way to exit this tower unless you are of my bloodline and only with my permission. You will have to trust me in this and listen to what I have to say if you care about Nushi or Lidy," Nixi said to me and then took a sip of her tea while still glaring at me.Damn this woman! Always another trick up her sleeve, but what was I going to do about it?Just because I could handle being around her did not mean that I could take Nixi