CHAPTER NINETEEN
Jade gulped and closed her eyes. Tucking the Sudarshana into her shirt, she unconsciously tightened her grip on Garuda’s smooth feathers with each flap of those giant wings. She’d never been a good traveller and the eagle’s jerky flight made her stomach roil and her mouth fill with saliva. She swallowed, deciding that he probably wouldn’t appreciate her chucking on his nice, clean feathers.
They gained altitude and she shivered in the thin, cold air. Garuda banked in a tight circle. Jade gulped and peeked with one eye. The ground was a long, long way down. She gasped and clutched a handful of feather, crushing them until he sent her a gentle, mental protest.
“Sorry,” she called. Her words were swept away in the wind. She muttered the mind-talk spell and switche
