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Man, I hate co-Travelling. The trip through the portal with Benyst was a real hack job. The last time I'd Travelled with him I'd had one wing and no idea what was going on. That was the Phoenix he'd expected on this journey, and so he flooded me with power as he gripped my arms. I spent the whole trip stuck in a circuit of his energy with his hot breath on my face. It was uncomfortable, to say the least.
We landed flat out on the spongy ground front to front with, thankfully, me on top. The sword would not have felt good jammed into my back. Both of us tried simultaneously to get away from the other, causing us to wriggle against each other. I was about to start complaining when I looked into Benyst's face. His devastatingly handsome face. I stopped moving. He stopped movin
