A Tale of A Thousand Years Ago [10]

I turned my head around quickly, her eyes were still closed; she was not awake, yet she was in the middle of the air with nothing to hold her. 

This was bad, as bad as it could get. 

Before even knowing about it, I was holding the klauth's scales with my right hand while I stretched out my left one to grab hold of Roe. It was then that I saw that my left hand was lacking a thumb and a little finger. I didn't know whether I could grab her with only three fingers or not, but I had no other option. 

I pushed my leg against the klauth's tail and moved my body as far as I could from the klauth's skin without having to compromise on the scales I was holding. All this happened in less than a second. I was acting more on instincts and less on actual thinking. 

I was close, just a little push and I would've grabbed her leg. But I couldn't.