CHAPTER NINE
Caitlin looked down and was confused as she saw a beautiful, medieval European city floating by beneath her. She tried to figure out where she was as she took in the church steeples, terra-cotta roofs, a river cutting through it spanned by low, arched bridges… Suddenly, she realized: Venice. Not the modernized Venice of today, but the pure, intact medieval Venice, roads of cobblestone, trodden by horses and carriages, and people in archaic dress.
Caitlin felt someone gripping her hand as the clouds brushed by her face, and she looked over to see Caleb with her, flying at her side. She did not understand what was happening, how she was flying, how Caleb was with her, what she was doing here. She felt stronger than she had ever felt, as if she could conquer the world by hersel
