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We’d only traveled a half a mile before I looked around. “Where’s Caius?”
Sage pointed upward. “There.”
I followed his finger and noticed a large shape high above us. The shadow flew lower and I saw the shimmering belly of our dragon friend. Caius tucked his wings against his body and dove down like a bullet. My eyes widened as he targeted where we stood.
“Uh, should we move?” I asked my grandfather.
Sage smiled as he watched the small hill hurtle toward us like a dinosaur-killing asteroid. “Wait a moment and watch.”
I shrank down as Caius plummeted closer to us. Fifty feet. Forty feet. Thirty. I yelped and flung my arms over my head. At twenty feet he spread his wings out and glided over us. A wind followed him that tugged me along so that I stumbled after him. Sage
