I Believe You

Blue suddenly plummets, and I have to return my concentration to keeping her moving. Being cold blooded really doesn't agree with either of us. I can see she's carrying the power of the Pillar of Fire in her right forepaw, its light seeping around her sharp talons as she holds it close to her body, but it's not enough to keep her going. It soon becomes apparent that the large blue dragon won't make it all the way back to Gaia's earthen palace.

I wonder why I'm able to do better than Blue at keeping myself moving? Is it because of the weakened adamantium? Neither of my passengers knows either.

It takes all my concerted concentration to keep us both moving long enough to reach the cave where Angela and I'd been captured, and where later I'd gotten Sheila pregnant. I end up having to drag the nearly comatose lizard inside. There is one benefit from the cold: the terrible stench that'd permeated this place before is tamped down.