Following the Faint Light: Up, Up, and Away
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 99749
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Wasting no time at all, Lord Frederigo in Batform fluttered swiftly upward toward a faint light in the cave high above, clutching what he had chosen to grab in his tiny talons. He was weary to the bone, but still managed to fly steadily upward, closer and closer to a small channel in the rock that led out and above to the twilit glow of the coming dawn. He flew out into the dim crisp air. Without having fed, the need for sleep was even more urgent, so he flew up near the top of a pine tree whose silhouette jutted from between the boulders of the mountainside. Still clutching Velus' tuft of hair between his talons, he hung himself suspended from a thin branch near the end of a long limb two-thirds up the pine. He slept the whole day through. Just after the fading sunset washed the dying light from the sky, he woke to the vastness of night. Moonlight bathed the sides of the trees. He felt as rested as he could be, but also tremendously weak. Suddenly...
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10/21/2012 8:26:03 AM
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