Pense gave me one of his more disturbing smiles. ‘Life with Galywis is never dull.’
I could find no response to make to that. We were inside a draykon. The fact that it could hardly be a real one and must be but a semblance of one was of some comfort to me, but not that much.
‘Life doesn’t get any less weird,’ I muttered.
‘It’s not boring,’ agreed Meri.
Gio merely seemed fascinated, for he wandered off at once to explore. Ny just sat humming some mad little tune to himself, his tail tapping out the beat.
I cleared my throat. ‘Well, Galy, we are with you so far,’ I said. ‘What are we meant to be seeing here?’
The organs around us vanished. Muscle, flesh and cartilage melted away until all that remained was the skeleton of the beast, shimmering in those beautiful colours I had always a
