Felix of Vale

"-a Jupiter, aren't you? You direct the wind?" Felix was shouting to be heard over the noise of the wind and what it was doing to the tent fabric.

The girl nodded, wide-eyed.

"Then read my mind!"

She closed her eyes, and Felix could see and feel her Psynergy reaching into his mind. The wind slackened a bit, then died completely. The girl rushed toward him...

...But before she crossed the few feet she had disappeared. again

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Unexpected, what you did to my heart!

Sheba had been disappointed when they finally got the Hover Jade. It didn't seem to lift them more than a few inches off the ground, and only for a few seconds.

"That's not a hover! It's not even much of a jump!" she'd complained.

But she wasn't complaining now.

"Look, Felix!"

Felix was trying very hard not to look. That they were still under Jupiter Lighthouse, in a room carved out of ordinary rock, helped, but he still didn't like being eight or ten feet above the floor, on a platform made entirely of Psynergy. Especially when he wasn't in control of it. Intellectually, he knew there was no safer way to get into the Lighthouse, and that Sheba wouldn't do anything dangerous, but he couldn't...

His train of thought was interrupted by Sheba's hand slipping into his. Small and light as a curl of wind she might be, but that contact calmed Felix enough to open his eyes and begin to glimpse what she found so amazing.

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At the beginning with you!

Felix still couldn't believe islands could float.

That wasn't particularly important now, though. The weird wave had hit and knocked them into whichever continent this was. Unfortunately, it had also scattered them. Felix himself wasn't seriously injured, but he didn't know how the others were faring. After calling a few times and getting no response, he set out - north, arbitrarily - to see whom he could find.

Then he was among trees - not enough to be called a forest, but enough to be the dominant feature. It was there that he found Sheba, her head against a tree. He cast Cure, she woke up and stood up, and together they went to find the others - and the future.

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...Never dreaming what we'd have to go through.