Awaken Into a New World

Chapter 15: Two Perspectives

"I was just thinking, on our way here from the last settlement, I spotted a small town. We should check there, too, don't you think?" asked Leah.

Aven stood. "Good eye. Where did you see it exactly?"

"North of the settlement." She stood as well. "Are we going there now?"

"The sooner we find her, the sooner we go home." He looked at her with a smile.

"Well," she said, stepping to the edge. "Let's get to it, then."

She slowly moved one foot over the edge, the sole of her boot brushing grains of sand off the the cliff. She leaned forward, leaped off the mountain, and fell as she watched the ground below slowly approached.

Leah smirked as the wind resistance blew back her hair.

"Always trying to impress, are we?" said Aven with a smile, leaping down the mountain and falling.

While Leah continued to fall, transparent blue flames formed and spread from her head to her feet. She stopped falling and flew slowly with the wind. The familiar sound of an eagle echoed, and Leah spotted it in t