Kiriei laughed.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"You're such a tease,"</span>she chided. It did feel good though, to be with such pleasant company. She'd been alone on this journey for a long time, yet she never really made any progress until she met Jerrar. Was that what they called "the power of friendship"? She was starting to get used to him always being there, watching over and protecting her. The thought of being away from him was one she did<span style="font-style: italic">not</span>want to think about. But they were together now, and that was all that really mattered to her.<br/><br/>They flew for quite a long ways, and Kiriei could see a little sliver of land in the distance. She wondered if perhaps it was the desert the water elder had mentioned, or if it was something completely different.