While the gate continued to tremble, I summoned Maggie and dumped Nisha on her. Then I scaled down the mountain at a speed that should have terrified me.
It wasn't a surprise that I could move like this. I'd done so with the chameleon. But knowing something and feeling it were two different things entirely, and right now, the feeling was winning. So much that I leaped off the edge of the mountain with absolutely no ground beneath me to land on. My legs swung in the air like I was riding the wind and everything just felt right, the way it whipped against me, the sheer height from up here as I soared across open sky.
It tasted like freedom.
'Freedom sure does taste nice.'
I lashed my hand forward, whipping a chain that spanned a great distance in an instant, latching onto one of the rocks on the lower slope of the mountain.
Then I pulled.
