Chapter #17

Aurora's Pov

The wings of Jewel began to stretch to life as I gave her instructions.

"We're gonna go very easy today, got it?" I asked her.

Mmmrrrr. Was all I got as a reply.

I managed to strap her harnesses in all the right places and took my seat on her back. I rubbed my hand on her side in soothing circles to calm her, Dylan did that sometimes.

"Alright, Aurora, deep breaths." I spoke to myself. "You can do this, nice and easy."

As gently as possible, I tapped my heels at her sides and she reacted immediately to my surprise.

Slowly and steadily, she matched her speed to mine and opened up her wide-spanned wings.

"Let's go!"

She took off into a short sprint and with a single, well executed flap of her wings we were airborne.

Effortlessly gliding through and through, higher and higher, I smiled against the rushing winds that softly blew on my hair.

"Jewel, you're doing great!" I laughed.

Mmmrrrr, she purred contentedly.

"Let's go higher!"