Alabaster held his breath.<span style="font-style: italic">Of all the dumb luck in the multiverse!</span>he cursed inwardly.<span style="font-style: italic">He's searching trees now, and here I am with my own personal beacon!  I knew my ostentation would betray me some day, but no, I just had to have the incandescent nimbus.</span>Meanwhile, Myri followed close behind the enemy in the hope that he would come down within her reach.