Kaiden reached along his Dungeon-Master bond for confirmation, and the signature resolved warm and familiar. The dungeon only registered that signal for those he had claimed as his. A blonde, quietly capable household figure who had absolutely no business being within a hundred kilometers of this place right now.
'No…'
...
The Skyfiends carried them across the cavern in under a minute. The evolved forms were another thing entirely from the dog-sized hunters they had used for traversal, broad-winged and horse-backed, the ridge along their spines built to seat a rider without complaint. Kaiden slid down from his mount's shoulder the moment its talons hit the Safe Zone's stone.
Alexandra was making her way up the incline toward the Abyssal Cavern pathway, and she was making it work on pure stubbornness and leg power.
