Escape From Nightmare

"It looks like you scared them off." Nigel later said to Amy as she was waking up. "It wasn't me this time. It wasn't my fault."

"Of course not." Amy sighed, absentmindedly stroking his leathery hide. "Don't worry, Nigel. Don't worry. At least we still have each other."

It took a while to bury Lord Marcus, but finally it was done. Amy said a final prayer over his grave, and then she and Nigel settled back into their comfortable, familiar routine of living off the land.

Another year passed. Amy turned 21, and had become quite tanned and muscular from handling sword and bow. Her old clothing had disintegrated completely, and she fashioned for herself a bikini top and shorts from various animal furs. She took to wearing flowers in her hair, and even made a wreath of flowers for Nigel to wear. But as days passed, her erstwhile raptor companion grew more and more depressed.

"I miss my home." he explained to her once. "I miss my mum and dad. I wonder if I'll ever see them again?"

That night they cried together. Then one day...

1. ...a much larger party of armored Knights arrives in the forest, seeking answers for Lord Marcus' death.
2. Amy and Nigel run into the possessed Velus, still living in the forest.
3. The silver mirror Nigel had found a year ago starts to glow ominously.
4. A spaceship descends from the sky. "They've come looking for me!!" Nigel yelled joyfully.

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